Removing and making it…

Removing and making it administratively more difficult to add bike lanes is not the way to reduce gridlock. Adding more traffic lanes only makes traffic worse as it disincetivizes people who could use alternative means of transport. By making it easier for people who could use bikes or transit, alternatives to cars reduce travel time for people who can't reasonably use alternatives to cars.

Urban planning has wrongly been prioritizing cars when it should prioritize people, and making streets and neighborhoods where people want to spend time and build connections and communities. Cars are so big, fast, and heavy that they can easily injure or kill people outside of them, all while taking up much more space than people on bikes or in transit. Isolating people inside of the shells of cars allows them to dehumanizing other road users, while the current car-centric culture minimizes the dangers and environmental and societal costs of car use. Infrastructure that allows cheaper and more environmentally friendly transport is a societal benefit as it increases mobility for those without as many resources, such as students, migrants, and the elderly.