This is a ridiculous idea…

This is a ridiculous idea. Bike lanes are not why there is traffic. Anyone who is on a bike is not in a car - if you want less traffic, you need less cars on the roads. Improving public transit, the bicycle network, and the pedestrian experience is the only way to have any hope of reducing traffic long term. If these things are not available, more people will take cars. More cars is more traffic; we cannot fix traffic by expanding the road width forever - we must give people options that are safe an reliable outside of an automobile.

(Further it is a wild overstep to take this matter out of the hands of municipalities. Cities should be able to make decisions for there own locality)