Is there evidence that…

Is there evidence that removing bike lanes will actually alleviate gridlock? If there is no designated lane, bikers will need to ride in a traffic lane, which would slow down traffic anyway. The streets with the proposed removal of bike lanes have high bicycle, electric scooter, and e-bike usage and oftentimes I see many people not wearing helmets. Requiring all of these individuals to ride in a traffic lane with cars will greatly endanger everyone.
I strongly believe that the best way to improve gridlock would be to incentivize the use of public transit and disincentivize single commuter drivers. This would require more investments into improving and upgrading existing transit infrastructure.