Portland, Oregon, is fining America -- which is to say, fining the nation's taxpayers, who include the city's residents -- $500 every 15 minutes a fence around a federal courthouse in the city blocks a bicycle lane.
The reason that fence is around the federal courthouse is that a subset of Portland's residents whom Portland absolutely refuses to deal with wants to get into federal courthouse, assumedly not just to have a chat with the night staff about the work of Slavoj Žižek.