Please keep the bike lanes…

Please keep the bike lanes and make more!
1. less cyclists in the car lane will ease congestion, give them their own lane to make sure they don't slow down car traffic. It is only good for cars to have dedicated bike lanes.
2. please connect the city's bike paths. Imagine car lanes not being connected, that will make you less likely to consider driving wouldn't it? Bad, unsafe, non-connected bike lanes force people into car lanes increasing problems for drivers.
3. more people cycling will reduce your costs for road repairs. Cars destroy the pavement over time, bikes don't.
4. get fresh accurate data on the number of cycling. Your numbers are so outdated.
5. cycling is good for downtown business. Making the area accessible brings more people there. Reducing the options to car/buss reduces the number of people willing to go there. There is real data to back up this claim, just look up a city Bamberg and how it's downtown died after they made roads focused on cars.
6. replacing the transportation by bike with transportation by car increases the cost tremendously for citizens of middle and low income.
7. replacing the transportation by bike with transportation by bus increases time it takes to get to the destination by 30-60min.
8. personally I bike and take a buss, rarely drive. Removing bike lanes will force me to move out of this city because buses take too long and don't go everywhere. I can't buy a second car for my family. One car per family isn't enough for everyone to get where they need to go.