Fine, but this is not the fault of bicyclists, it is the fault of planners and officials who, like you, are stuck in the mindset that everyone should have a their own car, and fuck everyone else.
You do not understand that:
a. not everyone can afford cars, insurance, and general upkeep that a car requires.
b. not everyone wants a car, whether it is for health, environmental, expense, whatever. And that is their right.
c. not every trip requires a personal automobile. We have legs for a reason.
Until people like you and city planners realize the above, we have to share the road. I would much prefer to take a nice series of trails and specifically labled bike routes to get where I need to go. Unfortunately, in Houston, as well as most of the U.S. the few trails and paths we have either do not go anywhere or go meander and multiplies the time it takes to get somewhere.
Speaking personally, I try to take larger roads, so as not to be a hazard and for safety, but unfortunately, these are the roads that cars also choose, so often I will have to take smaller, less bike friendly roads.
Also, I bet that you are one of those, who if a city does decide to take a road lane away, and make a bike lane, you complain loudly about it, and demand that they take the lanes away and give it back to the cars. We have that here in Houston, where the city adds a few lanes, then a few, LOUD crybabies whine about it, and they secretly, at night, remove them.
There are plenty of roads for cars, relatively few for bikes. If you feel they are slowing you down find another route with less cyclists.
We do pay our taxes, a LARGE part goes to roads, and it is in our rights to use them, and we will use them. You had better accept it and learn to deal with it.
give em a little hell