The very premise of this…

The very premise of this bill is entirely, willfully, ignorant to the concept of induced demand, and to the facts and findings of every single study on the matter. The facts are simply that motor vehicles are the single least-efficient method by which to move people. Bike lanes can move far more people using far less space. Every city that has invested in bike lanes and public transportation have seen their traffic congestion decrease, and every city that has instead focused on providing more lanes for motor vehicles have seen those lanes quickly become congested. If you incentivize people to ride bikes and take streetcars and buses, by building bike lanes and leaving streets for streetcars and buses rather than motor vehicles, you can move far greater quantities of people faster, more efficiently, and taking up less space. If you incentivize them to drive, by taking away these options and instead offering them only more car lanes, they will choose to drive and very quickly congest those street lanes again. Cities simply contain far too many people in too dense of a space for cars to be an effective means of transportation. If you want to improve traffic congestion, the results of every single study are crystal clear: build more bike lanes and public transportation. Leave the streets for streetcars and buses.