People refuse to understand any of the points that you've made.

Plus, bikes don't really create traffic jams the way that cars do, meaning that bike lanes look like they don't get as much use, so people just go, "look at that nearly empty lane I could be driving my car in all by myself." (They also fail to realize that that "empty" lane would sissy be filled with cars, so they'd just be sitting in traffic anyway.)

I could be wrong about this (it's the internet, I'm sure someone will correct me), but I think public perception of bike lanes in this city got kind of fucked because one of the previous city councils spent a ton of money without really explaining it properly and they were seemingly installing them on streets where they weren't connected/doing much (this has got a lot better now).

So now the whole thing is just one of those "let's blame this" kind of topics. Kind of like "we'd have better blahblah if they didn't waste all the money on bike lanes". Nimbyism is also really strong in this city.

They're afraid the gubmint will force them to sell their car and ride bikes at gun point and forcefeed them soy lattes or something.