cyccommute 

I can and do ride anywhere. I use MUPs. I use onstreet bike lanes. I use roads. And, occasionally, I go where there aren’t roads. That doesn’t mean that I have to like nor agree with poorly designed facilities.

Yes, heaven help you if you don’t use the poorly designed facilities. I regularly use a road instead of the stupid protected lanes. I’ve been buzzed and yelled at to “get over on the bike path”. Generally, I’ll take another road so as to avoid using those paths.

I’m already hard enough, thank you very much. I don’t use them because they are poorly designed. I object to the money spent on a poorly designed facility and then the implication from car drivers that I should have to use that poorly designed facility because that money was spent on it.

As an example of how poorly designed these facilities are, look at your second picture in your self quote above. It’s the typical floating parking lane and shows all of the flaws of that design. It’s too narrow and the cyclist is trapped against the curb if someone opens a car door or if the rider has to maneuver to avoid an obstacle or debris. At the intersection, the cyclist is masked from traffic that might be turning right. I don’t mind bike lanes on the other side of cars because I have room to maneuver if the need arises.

And I have patience for being forced to use poorly designed bike facilities.