Protected Bike Lanes Not Always Wise

I am undecided what the precise time period for these are, however in Lakeview alongside Broadway in entrance of Starbucks, there may be unusual elevated inexperienced strip and alittle additional north on the alternative aspect one other one roughly the identical size at avenue degree. 

I discover that on a avenue as slim, intensely trafficked as Broadway, these two current one thing of a hazard to each automobiles & cyclists given you have to swerve too shortly into them – and you then’re instantly out again on super-busy Broadway. Greater than typically I, like the remainder of the site visitors, am going so quick that I skip them alltogether, using alongside the road for there isn’t any time to fast swap.

How/who/why determined for them?