Bike lanes are not just bike…

Bike lanes are not just bike lanes- they are infrastructure to support accessibility. They enable people to use a variety of human-sized vehicles, mobility scooters, e-kick scooters, and bicycles, of people of all ages, abilities and incomes, to get to where they need to go. To remove bike lanes is tantamount to removing accessibility features of buildings. What would it be like to get rid of elevators and escalators, automatic doors or ramps? Removing bike lanes is a barrier to mobility. Accessibility should go past buildings, past the sidewalk.

Going back to how it was without bike lanes, cyclists filtered through and cars tried to leap-frog around, only to be passed again. There will be more and more lightweight, human-size vehicles and without bike lanes will cause greater conflict.

Bike lanes are an accessibility feature. Their removal (and their failure to be built) is ableist and assumes the ability to drive is a given.