That bike lane looks so cramped tho. Why not take both the bike lane and the pedestrian walkway and merge them into one wide bike+pedestrian road (still keeping it physically separate from the car lanes of course)? So much comfier, easier on the eyes, and you don't have to make bike traffic one way so cyclists don't have to cross the street just to go in the direction they need to. I'd feel so cramped cycling there, like how do I even pass people with any real speed without jumping onto the raised pedestrian bit? They could just swerve in front of me and there's nowhere to go in the bike lane.

I'll add an example from my country. Bikes and pedestrians have plenty of space and cars aren't cramped either. There's a marked pedestrian lane and bike lane, but since they're not physically divided, it's easy to temporarily use the pedestrian side for overtaking if necessary. This road in Montreal doesn't really need the divider between car lanes since speeds there are likely to be quite low, that could be taken away to increase the width of the potential combined bike+pedestrian roads.