This is true but its a sad state of affairs when the US would rather spend money bullying other countries to further corporate interests than giving their own citizens access to health care and education.

So most Americans can’t find California on a map? It’s smaller than France.

You can still have a road next to the bike lane, it just needs to have a barrier in between.

In the Netherlands you’ll see roads with three lanes of equal size in each direction with dividers in between. One for bikes, one for buses, one for cars.

In North America you will make drivers absolutely furious if you take some of their driving lanes away and make them exclusively for bikes or public transport. But they will eventually realise that such a system makes driving far more pleasant because there are so much fewer cars on the road when most journies are done via bike or public transport that you don’t need the extra lanes.