This proposed legislation is…

This proposed legislation is ridiculous. Decades' worth of data from cities all over the world show that increasing the number and extent of bike lanes in a city is one of the best ways to reduce gridlock and improve traffic because bike infrastructure makes it safer for people to cycle, so more people choose to cycle, which in turn means fewer cars jamming up the streets. Removing bike lanes is absurdly wasteful, and putting administrative barriers in the way of adding new ones directly prevents you from achieving your own goals of reducing gridlock--to say nothing of making our streets less safe. This entire plan also goes in exactly the opposite direction of what we need to do to prevent and mitigate climate change. This is 2024. Stop trying to take us back to the 80s with retrograde policy!