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Bike lanes benefit car drivers if and only if bike lanes encourages more bikes. Taking away one entire car lane to put two not often used bike lanes benefits nobody - and that is the case in the city I cited.
I'm all for infrastructure improvements, I just don't think bike lanes is the way to go. Perhaps once mass transit is introduced, we can reduce car lanes for bike lanes, but I don't believe the area I used to live is at that stage yet.
In practice, transit only works in sufficiently dense neighborhoods. It is either not economical or not frequent enough in typical North American suburbs. Bike lanes work in suburbia: you place them in roads where the speed and frequency of car traffic is currently discouraging would-be cyclists.
Bike lanes cost pennies and you offen don't need to take any car lanes away because you can simply paint the existing car lanes a little narrower.