Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?

Like you sit in traffic for an hour each day to work. Wouldn’t you want to halve that by having more other people use bicycles instead?

  • porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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    21 hours ago

    I think some of why is related to how most people in a traffic jam go “damn this traffic” not “damn, I’m making this worse”

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Or “if only the city would open a new lane, it won’t be as congested”. Sometimes followed by “why dId the city shut the road, that’s just going to make traffic worse” when the council shuts the road for expansion works.