biking is great, good for the environment, and no better than a multitude of other alternative transportation

bicycles are just another vehicle on the road. period. saying how special one is does not make one special, however whining the voice used. they don't deserve a bike lane any more than skateboards deserve a skateboard lane. but for the fact that sanctimonious and self-righteous individuals have convinced themselves (only) that they deserve some form of preferential treatment this would not even be an issue. if you are good enough at riding your bike in traffic that you are confident doing so, more power to you. go for it. if you cart a child behind you through traffic in a make-shift yellow wheelbarrow, you are irresponsible to no end, despite what this silly group tells you. wanting a single person vehicle for any reason is selfish and denies others who actually care about society functioning the very benefit of public transportation. people biking to work and demanding extra lanes for their traffic are exclusively white collar, pushy and full of themselves and their lance armstrong attire. and now you don't just want the right to be in traffic as a single person vehicle, you want special consideration for your refusal to help the traffic problems in seattle, as if causing a major problem is justification for fixing your mess in the manner of your choice. asinine. if you are for a moment pretending like your bike riding is making a difference, other than interfering with good citizens who actually utilize public transportation to get to work (as opposed to revisiting their childhood toys as they zip from sidewalk to street), you are self-important and deluded. also, on a slight tangent, if you don't walk your bike across a bridge with pedestrian traffic, which maybe one out of 100 seattle bikers does (see fremont bridge, ie) you are a fucking asshole. do people violate traffic laws? why yes, they do, and that can be expected from bikers and drivers alike. now that we have that knowledge, and can admit to it, we need to work within that understanding. a safe haven for people to have single person vehicles that interfere with public transportation (which is actually useful and necessary, as opposed to being a happy convenience for those fortunate enough to live biking distance from their office building - ie, not everyone) is a joke, and an outright example of the selfish privilege of the modern transplant to seattle.