Vehicular cycling (bikes being treated as other vehicles) is dangerous if it‘s used to guide infrastructure (then the correct answer is complete separation and a few other tricks that boil down to avoiding contact between bikes, cars and pedestrians), vehicular cycling is, however, exactly the right approach of no biking infrastructure exists.
So vehicular cycling is both wrong and right at the same time. Correct as in guiding laws and behaviors when no infrastructure exists, but at the same time wrong in guiding new infrastructure. It should strictly be seen as a stop-gap, a measure only in place until infrastructure is in place.
Until then and in those places vehicular cycling is exactly the right thing to do.
I think this discussion often suffers from people thinking they have to find one correct answer for all situations. That‘s not needed. We just have to know when in which context vehicular cycling is the correct answer.
So vehicular cycling is both wrong and right at the same time. Correct as in guiding laws and behaviors when no infrastructure exists, but at the same time wrong in guiding new infrastructure. It should strictly be seen as a stop-gap, a measure only in place until infrastructure is in place.
Until then and in those places vehicular cycling is exactly the right thing to do.
I think this discussion often suffers from people thinking they have to find one correct answer for all situations. That‘s not needed. We just have to know when in which context vehicular cycling is the correct answer.