Originally Posted by Inisfallen

Well, sure. But here I am in a densely populated city of nine million people, built for the most part on islands (meaning that the only direction for expansion is up), into which (COVID aside) several more million people come every day to work.

Some regulation is absolutely necessary. It just won't work otherwise.

I'm sure all of us bike commuters are glad that the law controls where people can drive cars, for example. Otherwise drivers would be taking shortcuts by using the greenways.

And the city's bike paths work because they're restricted to bicycles. At this point in time, they're being used by riders of actual motorcycles. And those riders aren't even observing the basic rules of going in the same direction as everyone else, or using lights at night.