Comment by rsynnott

> Local governments here try to encourage cycling by putting in as many dedicated bike lanes as they can, but they never seem to get much use

Might be a regional or urban/rural thing? In Ireland bike lanes in central and near-central Dublin are often very heavily used these days, especially since covid (to the point that I think they're going to have to rethink traffic control for some of them), but bike lanes in outer suburbs seem to be mostly empty.