And bike lanes can work in small towns and small cities. Canadian cities are generally spread out a lot wider than their European counterparts and have a lot more snow.
There's a big kerfuffle in Edmonton right now, too, over bike lanes.
The city wants to put in more, but the ones we have now are not getting used enough to justify the traffic snarls and tie-ups.
It seems an extravagance to me - we don't have the weather to be able to use them more than 3 months out of the year, and the rest of the 9 months of the year, they just cause traffic problems and are a waste of valuable space.
I would feel completely different about them if I lived in a city with weather that supported bike lanes.