Re “Any city budget cuts should start with bike lanes” (April 27): People have asked why we install rarely used bike lanes. But surely they understand that building a road from A to B doesn’t help if you need to go from C to D.
It’s the same for bikes: People may want to go from C to D, but if there’s even one unsafe stretch, they won’t go.
Not until there’s wide coverage of safe bike lanes throughout the city will people use them.
Example: Last Saturday, I needed to go from the train station to Morley Field. Thanks to the bike lanes downtown and on Upas, I could do so safely. Fortunately, my route was covered by the city’s current, but sparse, set of bike lanes.
A network of bike lanes will reduce traffic congestion, increase health and safety, and cut pollution. So I applaud the city for its current bike lanes, but we need more of them, not fewer.
— James Wang, Cardiff
