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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City โ In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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You're entirely right. Cyclists can't take full advantage of their bikes as long as they have to watch out for pedestrians crossing. It's equally problematic to have to be on the defensive passing every side-street.
The ideal would be to have the 3 types of traffic entirely separated. So the cycle lane is neither next to the pedestrians nor next to the cars.