I’ve had these very conversations with people. Our local public transit / biking advocacy group does presentations, works with local politicians, and runs events to promote biking, transit, and safe streets.
Unless it’s a group that’s already 100% on board with pedestrian support needs, someone will complain that there’s not enough parking where a bike road should be. This is in a city where over 30% of downtown is open air parking lots, plus the roads, and then on street parking.
This comic isn’t funny, it’s just a straight up depiction of our experiences here.
We’ve started putting similar memorials up around our city when pedestrians biking are killed by car drivers. It’s getting pretty scary just how many we need to make. There’s even some spots where we almost had to put two on the same street corner (the biker lived after a hospital stay), and we’ve only been doing it for a year!