As both a car driver and…

As both a car driver and bike lane user, it is important to have separated bike lanes for the safety and ease of all. It helps both drivers and cyclists share the road with greater ease. Bike lanes help to take cars off the road which reduces congestion or enables the infrastructure to manage population growth.
And bike lanes help with biker safety which makes more people feel safe to consider biking, again taking cars off the road. A blanket opposition to bike lanes will not ultimately help congestion. And removing existing cycling infrastructure that already cost $$ to be put in is the height of wasteful spending and unacceptable to taxpayers.