Huge trucks make sense as work vehicles when the job requires that you haul or tow huge amounts of heavy equipment or materials. That is a pretty small percentage of the population. Lifted vehicles make sense if you need to go off-roading. Only way a huge lifted truck is reasonable is if you need to off-road with thousands of pounds of materials and equipment.
I can’t imagine many people have any real need for that. Non compact trucks shild require an additional license, and be taxed very heavily or require extra expensive registrations with the ability to write most of that off come tax season for people who’s work requires it.
Bob in accounting does not need a lifted F450. Bob in accounting is a huge hazard to everyone else on the road every time he drives it to work and back home and to gym 2 times a week.
A single bike lane doesn’t do much to make an area more accessible to bicycles. Over time, with enough bike lanes and other bicycle friendly infrastructure, it makes a huge impact.
Our citys are designed very poorly. Our roads are designed very poorly. Our laws are designed very poorly. This all takes time to fix, especially when the people trying to fix things are fighting against the lawyers and lap dogs of multibillion dollar corporations.
I understand your frustration. You want better traffic flow and feel like this change made it worse. You are probably right in the short term, but on a macro scale, the only way to fix the problem is to rebuild from the ground up to make your area less car reliant. Less car use is better in pretty much every way.