Isn’t it supposed to be “fewer” anyway?
No, less is perfectly acceptable. GoT is very annoying for turning people into grammar pedants for a 18th century style suggestion.
They probably mean that those convenient areas adjacent to the lanes on a road should be seen as “less bike lanes, but more car park”.
“Fewer” since they are countable.
ETA this is basic grammar and not something you can just take exception with because you feel like it. The responses I’m receiving are very odd.
If there are two bike lanes merging into one, there are one, two or three bike lanes?
THANK YOU.
(Obviously this doesn’t matter. Language evolves. And no one cared about this rule until the last 200 years or so. But my parents drilled this particular correction so firmly into my brain that it bothers me when others get it wrong. “Fewer in number, less in amount.” Similarly, “farther in distance, further in degree.” And you stand on a PODIUM, you speak from behind a LECTERN.)
(I might have some lexicographical trauma. 😅)
Fewer*
Oh look, another old white man with stupid ideas
