I bike a lot, so gotta plug bike lanes, but think they are usually not well thought out and implemented. A lot of the ones in my town are cruddy. They seem to be designed and implemented and maintained (???) by people who do not ride bikes, don't have the bicyclist's perspective. Rough pavement a lot of the time. What's the use of a bike lane if it's an inferior route to non-bike-lane routes? Sometimes cars drive in them anyway, depending on the design/implementation.
I quad skate the streets a lot too, which is tougher than biking. Getting from here to there on quad skates is pretty challenging, almost guaranteed to be difficult and frustrating if you haven't determined a preferred route, which is a trial and error process that takes time and experience and experimenting, etc. etc. Creativity too. But it's worth it when it works.