I'm a bit late to this party but I just saw this thread. In the mid-00's I spent a lot of time in South Chicago on business. I didn't have a bike with me but did notice, and was appalled by, the bike lanes I saw. The layout was; a curb lane for car parking, then a bike lane and then the auto driving lane, only separated by painted white lines. That meant any car pulling into or out of a parking space immediately crossed the bike lane and any one getting into or out of a parked car opened the driver side doors right into the bike lane. Of course, all right turns from the auto lane also crossed the bike lane.
This seemed an absolutely perfect recipe for bike accidents and that layout could not have been made by anyone who ever rode a bike.