MORE BIKE LANES, OF COURSE: "Which will make morning and evening commutes easier and safer, spending highway trust funds on more and better roads, or more bike lanes?"

More than 90 percent of Americans depend upon their personal cars and trucks to get to and from work every day. But many government officials at all levels seem determined to make life miserable for drivers.

They won't say it in those words, but that is what many public officials, including especially the bureaucrats who run zoning, transportation and economic development agency, intend to be the result of their policies.

Why? So commuters will leave their cars at home and take mass transit instead. That justifies bigger budgets and staffs for the bureaucrats.

This is the ugly secret at the heart of federal transportation policy. It's why one of every four tax dollars collected for the Highway Trust Fund is actually spent, according to the Heritage Foundation, on "subways, streetcars, buses, bicycle and nature paths, and landscaping."

Bureaucrats love mass transit because mass transit goes where they want it to go when they want it to go there. Bureaucrats hate private cars and trucks because drivers decide where to go instead of bureaucrats. Government control versus individual freedom.

As usual, it's all about control. Their control, not yours.