We allow our tax dollars to be spent paving over our most valuable farm land, putting out car fires, dealing with traffic accidents, signalizing streets, and providing everyone with free parking. There seems to be a bit of a reality gap here. They, of all people, would seem to have an interest in clean air, and hence in stopping the progress of the freeway juggernaut. It is high time that bicyclists, transit advocates, and other pedestrians stop begging for the crumbs dropped from the table of the auto users. We have all stolen the homes and habitats of our wildlife.
Wildlife have no way to defend themselves.
But bicyclists don't have that excuse. We spend money on the products of the auto and oil industries. No significant progress will ever be made until bicyclists stand up on their hind legs and demand an end to their imprisonment. Lincoln freed the involuntary slaves in 1861. We need another Lincoln to free the voluntary slaves.