I use these bike lanes daily…

I use these bike lanes daily, and loathe the idea of my taxes going to removing them. I shop at businesses and eat at restaurants that would otherwise be out of my walking range, but too annoying to visit in my car—a fact that removing the bike lanes won't help! As a not-especially athletic woman, I'm not going to risk biking in mixed traffic. (Many times there is no choice but to bike on main streets, because the side streets won't get me to these places.) I will feel unsafe, and probably stop frequenting these stores as a result. Why not address traffic where it really forms, by changing the rules on parking on thoroughfares—one car parked in the right lane causes slowdown ripples for blocks. Or why not fix the streetcar? Removing an alternative mode of transportation will endanger people like me or else force me into a car, adding to traffic. And of course, I consider what this will mean for all the gig workers, who will be either become more car traffic, or else have to brave a far more dangerous job reality. I don't want the person delivering my dinner risking their life doing so! This proposal won't address what it pretends to. The priorities are all wrong, and it won't just be those who use the bike lanes who feel the negative effects.