^ I care. I care because I live downtown - as well as this place many people refer to as the "real world" or "reality" - and realize that downtown streets need to work for pedestrians, bikes, and auto traffic. Thumbing your nose at one of those three just because you don't use one is inane and frankly, living in denial.
Many of the one way streets downtown are too wide, and could use bike lanes to A) take a lane of auto traffic away and B) slow down the vehicular traffic, making it safer for both bikes and pedestrians, while not having too much of a material impact on the volume of vehicular traffic that goes through there. Which would make 8th and 6th streets, even 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, & 11th Streets perfect candidates for east-west bike lanes.
7th Street could possibly work, though it could get precarious, and potentially dangerous for bikes by taking away two lanes of traffic (this presumes having bike lanes in both directions). 2nd Street is simply too narrow between Broadway & Hill, Main & Spring, and Los Angeles & San Pedro to accommodate a bike lane. Though I'll admit that dedicated bike lanes through the 2nd Street tunnel and further west could - and should - be easily accommodated.
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