If you own a car and like to drive around on campus’ main drag, PSU has a message for you: “Get bent.”

Sam “Hey, does anybody like me yet?” Adams, the poster child for all things “progressive,” recently met with PSU president Wim Wiewel to cut the proverbial ribbon on the new bike lanes, which put cyclists between the parked cars and sidewalk. This bold move serves as a reply to what many of us have been wondering for years: Why can’t cars just park in the middle of the street?

The bike lane, which is big enough to accommodate a car, runs along SW Broadway for several blocks. I believe this to be a terrible idea. Here’s why:

One might argue that the cock-up on SW Broadway is only temporary, and that motorists will eventually get used to reserving the far-right lane for cyclists. However, since this “experiment” takes place on the campus of a public university, visitors to the school will be confused by the long line of stagnant traffic directly in the center of the road. This reporter is predicting at least three instances of people driving in the bike lane this year. And what about tourists who get lost trying to find a particular restaurant, hotel or venue on Broadway? If they miss it, they’re now driving right into PSU. Good luck, outsiders.

What’s the point of all this? Are PSU and Sam Adams trying to entice even more people to ride their bikes through this seven-block corridor? Why? Who’s really going to do this? Where’s the gauge of success? If fifty new cyclists opt to take the new lanes for seven blocks once a week, is it worth the time/money/sidewalk destruction/potential mowing down of cyclists? I say no.