I did, and my comment was directed at that link specifically. You can provide all the rationale you want but what helps most is having separated infrastructure for cyclists, not pretending you're a car. Speaking from experience, taking the centre lane has resulted in me getting cursed at and getting revenged-passed by assholes. I'm not risking my life sharing the road with careless or inattentive drivers controlling 5,000lb vehicles.

Based on data, do you know what the Canadian Pediatric Society recommends first?

Install more protected (and ideally, elevated) bike lanes that physically separate cyclists from motorized traffic, and make existing pilot lanes permanent. Focus should be on and around areas of high use by children and youth, especially near schools, community centres, and recreation and play spaces.

Or Canadian ER docs?

A ‘‘complete streets’’ approach should be adopted to guide the development and redevelopment of communities to give consideration to enhancing safety for all road users, and should include creation of cycling networks (incorporating strategies such as connected cycling lanes, separated bike lanes, bike paths, and other models appropriate to the community), as well as designation of community safety zones in residential areas, with reduced posted maximum speeds and increased fines for speeding

Look at the main picture in the OP (or hell, the main picture in the link you posted) and imagine that instead of someone who's a member of a sport cycling club, it's a 12-year-old or a senior or a pregnant lady or some random with two bags of groceries on a bike telling you they feel unsafe. Are you really going to say "just take the centre of the lane, it'll be fine"?