From an environmental…

From an environmental standpoint, it is obvious that an increased number of bike lanes has enormous benefits for cleaner air. Bikes are emissions free and, per passenger, require much less material and energy to construct than cars (1,2). Bike infrastructure has a net health-cost benefit (3) as well as local economic benefits (4) and is less costly to maintain per passenger.

Not only is bike traffic cleaner passenger-by-passenger, but reducing bike infrastructure to increase car infrastructure has an amplifying effect on car traffic due to the effect of "induced demand" (5). Therefore, removing or terminating planned bike lanes will have locally amplified car traffic and therefore a strongly negative environmental impact. Conversely, building more bike lanes will shift towards more bike usage and therefore reduced car use and net environmental benefit.

Regarding "induced demand": building more roads or allowing more car traffic in general will not result in relieved congestion, since it will simply lead to more and more traffic (6).

Overall, this proposal brings severe environmental drawbacks. Furthermore, the proposal does not consider benefits of bike infrastructure to economy and overall transportation efficiency.

Resources:
(1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103475
(2) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.03.101
(3) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.02464…
(4) https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2019.1638816
(5) https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bike-lanes-impacts-1.7358319
(6) https://www.vtpi.org/gentraf.pdf