I 100% agree that this is the law in Massachusetts.

You and I might know the laws, but what about someone traveling from another country who wants to use OSM to plan a bike route? Just because we may not find certain data useful doesn't mean it shouldn't be added.

What I’ve learned over my time mapping is that the richer the data, the better. There are some great projects out there that use this data. Personally, I love https://pianos.pub/. I don’t play piano, but someone made a website where you can enter your address, and it shows you the nearest public piano.

Hi,

I noticed in this change set you deleted the following cycle ways;
WAY: 831595579
WAY: 1187660032
WAY: 1187660035

They are currently being built (with physical separation) while it is not finished just yet. You are still able to ride on it. If you look on using bing satellite imagery you can see it. I rode on it this Wednesday (07/05/2023) Here is a link talking about the plan.
https://www.boston.gov/departments/transportation/commonwealth-avenue-bu-east-bike-lanes

Here is link to picture I highlighted in yellow where the bike lane is being built with physical separation. https://imgur.com/gallery/1Vdp4s0

Then regarding
WAY: 1187660038

There is is no physical separation there for the most part so I agree more technically correct to remove it, but at one part there is physical separation. Here is link to picture I highlighted in yellow bike lane with physical separation. https://imgur.com/gallery/F7wW1RW .

Do you think it is better to just shorten the way to contain just that part with physical separation or just delete the whole way entirely? I understand it is easier and more convenient just to delete the way, but you lose the history when you do that.

Cheers