While walking my son to school a couple of weeks ago, I noticed something odd happening on Court Street, a major thoroughfare that runs through our part of Brooklyn: A lane of the street was being removed, to make room for a protected two-way bike lane.

As a father who would like to see his son bicycle more but lives in constant fear of him being pancaked by an SUV while riding in Brooklyn’s packed streets, I was elated by the change — but also surprised. Even in Brooklyn, one of the most densely populated and walkable places in the US, about half of households own a car — and I can tell you from experience, they are very territorial about their right to drive them.

Yet here was my own neighborhood, taking away a lane for cars and giving it to cyclists. It’s part of an effort spreading a

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