Bike lanes reduce congestion…

Bike lanes reduce congestion. Single driver cars create congestion. Removing bike lanes is not only shortsighted, it poses a safety risk to cyclists.

More cars on the road = more congestion and more emissions. Adding bureaucratic red tape for cities where bikes are most needed is not progress. This will not only save no one any time, it will be taking cities backwards regarding environmental concerns. Attaching a link to the entire article, but this was a particularly salient section that should be seriously considered:

Build it and they will come

One would think that building more roads with more lanes for cars would reduce congestion, but r esearch shows that's not the case, thanks to something called induced demand. The more traffic lanes that are put in, the more it appeals to people who may not otherwise have chosen to drive, thereby putting more cars on the roads and increasing congestion.

"So for a short period of time, there might be a slightly improved [reduction], but within a year or two, or perhaps three, traffic is as bad or worse than it was before the lanes were added in the first place," said David Beitel, data services lead at Eco-Counter, a Montreal company that collects and analyzes pedestrian and bicycle traffic data.