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I actually don’t agree that this should be a legal standard but I am glad something is blocking this asinine waste of money gimmick.
I don’t like this because if we follow the argument to its natural conclusion there should be no car lanes at all.
I’m not pro car, I love biking (despite the shitty local infrastructure where we expect cyclists to ride in lanes filled with debris like glass, nails and trash, parked cars, and those square sewer grates with bike tire sized holes, or on bike lanes that randomly end or turn into pedestrian walkway’s). I just want sensible fucking policy.
That's not the argument the decision makes. The law ordered the removal of bike lanes to improve traffic. Then they could not show that removing the bike lanes would improve traffic. So they're taking an action that would endanger members of the public for no benefit.
If they could justify it then it could be saved under the reasonableness clause but they can't.
If you make the argument in a vacuum, without considering all other variables in play and the ones that would come in play at every next stage of it, then you might end up without car lanes. If you however consider thouse, then at every next step you'd have to prove to the judge that harm is done. Soon the other side would point out for example that people would die in ambulances stuck in traffic and they'll have the evidence to back it up. And that's where your car lane cutting crusade would end. You may succeed in getting rid of some more car lanes (good) but you won't get to clean them all up.
Ambulances can drive on the bike paths, like in the Netherlands. Way easier to get out of the way of emergency vehicles on a bike.