

The point is that it’s the same for literally every mode of transportation. Including walking. In fact it is more energy expensive for cars, since the accelerate faster, accelerate to a faster speed, and weigh a lot more.
Saying that the energy is spent by the person instead of the machine might not be the best argument, since on rich countries people actually want to spend more energy from themselves, and less energy from their car.
There are many other reason why bikes should be treated differently. But energy efficiency is BS.
For example another commenter said how it physically hurts stopping so much on a bike. Which is actually a good argument. I don’t mind wearing out my car as I do wearing out my joints.











The unfairness problem imo is a problem because many places don’t have exclusions for bikes. I’m not Canadian so idk if that’s true there.
Both cars and bikes have to obey the rules, even in situations where it is obvious that not obeying them would be better (for example running a red light in the middle of nowhere where you have clear visibility that there are no humans around).
And there are some rules that are obviously thought only for cars, so the bikes think that they can break them.
As a car this is seems as unfair because they can’t break the rules even if they think there’s no danger.
If the rule just says “this rule doesn’t apply to bikes” imho it would be seen as fair-er by cars.