I am with Canklecat .... educated drivers are all that is needed.
My new hometown has a lot of bike lanes .... but most of the roads I prefer to ride are narrow and twisty and lane-free. I count on drivers being willing to share the road---and I ma very pleasantly surprised by how patient most drivers can be. I have met a few real losers and a few fools, and had a couple questionably close passes .... but I did many, many years and many thousands of miles in the Greater Orlando, Florida area when it was the cycling death capital of the nation every year---and proud of it. After that experience, if nobody is throwing stuff at me, I feel pretty lucky.
The marked bike lanes are a real plus when I need to do utility riding---errands, or for work, or whatever, where I cannot pick my route and./or time of day (morning and evening transit hours always suck, no matter what) but it is the (apparent) impact of "share the road" education which makes me feel safer.
Though, I am not sure Orlando is any better. Could be just as bad as it was 25 years ago .... though Tampa and St. Pete seem to trade off the "Cycling Death Capital" crown lately, leaving poor Orlando off the podium.
(Interesting differences between "dangerous" and "deadly", too.
https://www.peoplepoweredmovement.or...or-bicyclists/
https://www.gearpatrol.com/outdoors/...-for-cyclists/
https://www.carinsurance.org/deadlie...more%20rows%20
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoo...g-deaths-year/
https://www.outsideonline.com/2409749/outside-cycling-deaths-2020/#content
https://www.governing.com/archive/most-bicycle-cyclist-deaths-per-capita-by-state-data.html
Here's the good stuff ....
Rank Metropolitan Area Cyclist Fatalities Deaths per 100,000 Residents
1 Cape Coral, Florida 5.43 0.82
2 Tampa, Florida 10 0.77
3 Abilene, Texas 1 0.74
4 Sacramento, California 10.43 0.71
5 Clearwater, Florida 6.57 0.7
6 Fort Lauderdale, Florida 12.57 0.68
7 Lakeland, Florida 4.29 0.68
8 Stockton, California 4.71 0.67
9 Orlando, Florida 11.71 0.66
10 Jacksonville, Florida 5.71 0.64
11 Savannah, Georgia 1.71 0.62
12 West Palm Beach, Florida 8.43 0.61
(
https://www.valuepenguin.com/cities-...ist-fatalities)
Eight of the top twelve.
Somehow I am not real sorry I moved.