Bike infrastructure is so…

Bike infrastructure is so important! Not only does it save lives, but every biker is someone not in a car, which reduces gridlock. By reducing bike lanes in key transportation corridors, we will induce more demand for cars making traffic worse (i.e., induced demand, a known and evidence-support urban planning concept). Also putting all those lanes in costed us a ton of money and removing them will only cost us more. It's pointless. We want people to get out of their cars and bike if they are able - it makes traffic better for everyone. The whole concept of this is ludicrous to me: paying tones of money to remove perfectly good bike lanes to only rebuild them on less convenient side streets (that often don't have bridges over waterways and add tons of km to travel times) will not improve traffic nor will it incentivise cycling. Leave the bike lanes as is and focus on more important problems, like healthcare.