Keeping the bike lanes is…

Keeping the bike lanes is integral to creating a city that is both sustainable and functional.

As the city is growing and will continue to grow there is no way that opening up a few bike lanes will help improve traffic flow. And from the data I’ve seen traffic has not slowed significantly where there are bike lanes.

The fact is when you force bikes and cars to share the road, traffic will slow to match the slowest vehicle. As a cyclist commuter, I will continue to cycle on those streets, as busy as they are, where you remove bike lanes. And all those cars will have to drive slowly behind me or pass going into another lane. This solution will only cause further tensions between cars and cyclist and increase the number of accidents.

Large cities in Europe have built up public transit and bike lanes as an effort to reduce car traffic in their city core. They recognize that as cities grow, there is just not enough space to accommodate those additional cars.

Frankly, the emotional and irrational proposals here in this law are disturbing. The fact that the bike lane removals are being combined with removing environmental and personal protections for building a highway reads as manipulative.

What would solve traffic congestion? If more people took public transit or biked to work.