Bike lanes are what cities make them. A lane in Amsterdam is not the same as a lane... pretty much anywhere else I've seen.
Seems like most of the safety complainers don't want to cycle and are looking for excuses.
Vehicular cycling has set back actual progress in safe infrastructure by decades and is woefully ill-informed about the needs of anyone other than fit, adult, experienced cyclists with excellent vision, hearing, and reflexes.
If you wouldn't let your 8 or 80 year old relative use it, it's crap bike infrastructure.
Aged 8, I was in the UK in the 1990s.
- Most children went to the nearest school (no longer the case with increased choice from parents)
- The tabloid "paedo-fear" thing hadn't really set in, so more children were allowed outside unsupervised.
- There were fewer people, and fewer working people [1]
- The number of car trips has gone up (although not much), and the number of walking trips has gone down massively [1]
- The number of children being driven to school (on a parent's way to work) has increased massively [1]. That presumably adds traffic at the worst possible place and time for children who could otherwise walk or cycle to school.
[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...