"Amazingly - I actually sometimes feel LESS safe when in a bike lane. I have had more close calls with drivers seemingly not paying attention and turning right in front of me when I was in a bike lane than any at all in the multiple years of biking more suburban Cleveland where there aren't bike lanes.Of course - I always respect the rules of the road - sharing the lane, stopping for lights and signs, and only moving up to the front of the line when the lane is wide enough to share. I will take the entire lane when the road is too narrow to share, but that isn't frequent in the parts of Cleveland I have biked."