As a car owner and someone…

As a car owner and someone who cycles and walks to get around I am very much against this. Bike lanes keep people safe and drivers from getting into preventable accidents. If you go through with this you will be accountable for the excess deaths in the road. This policy won’t even solve the congestion issue. It may improve temporarily but demand by car use will only just catch up and surpass capacity again. The only sensible thing to do is to create more options for people to get around which includes cycling. There are so many benefits to personal health, air quality, climate change and the vibrancy of our cities. Please just let municipalities and the people decide what’s best.