Keep the North Central bike lanes

I agree this makes NO SENSE.

It makes NO SENSE that the city spent a year not seriously evaluating alternatives, despite being directed to do so.

It makes NO SENSE that funds intended for street-lighting and safety improvements were repurposed to replace shared lanes with unprotected bike lanes, stripping residents of curbside parking and negatively impacting daily life, all for an average of just a handful of bike trips per day.

It makes NO SENSE to claim these lanes are “safer” when no responsible parent would allow a child to ride inches from moving traffic with no physical protection – and perhaps explaining why, after many years, children still do not use them.

It makes NO SENSE to argue simultaneously that North Central residents “don’t own cars” and that the neighborhood has “too many cars.” Both cannot be true – CRAZY NONSENSE.

And it makes NO SENSE to ignore the real equity issue: seniors, disabled residents, and families who lost access to parking in front of their own homes.

Doing the right thing now means acknowledging past mistakes, restoring resident parking, and pursuing solutions that actually balance safety, equity, and fiscal responsibility.

The city council needs to do the right thing and remedy the damage caused by previous bad actors that mis-used taxpayer monies. We must now own up to that mistake and remove the barely used bike lanes and restore resident parking for this Equity Priority Community.

NO SENSE-ible person would argue otherwise.