The road to creating a city that encourages bicycles isn’t pretty, and the Seventh Avenue Historic District has become embroiled in some particularly ugly discussions lately. On July 20, District 5 City Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer facilitated a virtual meeting between Nick Williams, deputy manager of internal and external affairs for the Department of Traffic and Infrastructure, and concerned Seventh Avenue residents who say that the bike lane infrastructure improvements, particularly the white plastic bollards, not only showed up out of nowhere, but are confusing, potentially less safe — and ugly…