As someone that uses the…

As someone that uses the bike lanes, removing them would force me to use a car, thereby adding to the gridlock traffic in mention. The people haven't had time to get used to the bike lanes yet, as people get more accustomed less people will use cars and more public transit/bikes as a city should. If all the resources being used to tear up the already existing bike lanes were put into improving public transit we might see an actual decrease in traffic as more people feel safe to use bikes/busses/subway to travel.