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I wish to register my disapproval and complete disagreement with this proposal. The proposal to remove bike lanes, and to prevent the installation of new bike lanes, is not based on valid evidence about effective strategies to reduce traffic congestion. This proposal will also make bicycling transportation more dangerous for cyclists, leading to more injuries and deaths that can be avoided or minimized with protected bike lanes. Bike lanes help to ease vehicle congestion in the long term by increasing the availability of cycling and reducing the number of cars on the road. The proposal to remove or prevent new bike lanes from being installed is also detrimental to efforts to try and reduce human impacts on climate change. This proposal makes no sense and I am strongly against these measures.
The government should instead make housing more affordable so that people do not have to live so far away from their work or school, therefore reducing the need to commute by car for long distances, which leads to greater traffic congestion.