Ask any transport planner or…

Ask any transport planner or engineer, not only does this cause incredible violence on vulnerable and radicalized citizens, it does nothing for reducing congestion.

Reducing cycling lanes will not only lead to the physical safety of many road users, it will result in increased congestion and gridlock. Transportation planning 101 can tell you that adding driving lanes will only momentarily reduce congestion. Induced demand, which means travellers from other routes, modes, and times will use up that additional capacity and the system will return to the same level of service. There is simply not enough physical space to have enough lanes for cars, the math doesn't add up. The only way to reduce congestion is to have better transportation demand management, which means getting some portion of people to use transit, bikes, and walk... so that way only the people that need to drive are driving.