Thursday's letters: Every bike is one less car on the road

Re. “Why not clog up all downtown streets?,” Letters, Sept. 4
Jim Holowchak worries a proposed 109 Street bike lane would “(Cripple) motorized traffic beyond belief in order for a couple hundred bikes daily to dawdle back and forth.”
Let’s set aside the dubious assertion that 109 Street lacks adequate capacity to accommodate a bike lane, or that daily bike traffic on that route amounts to “a couple hundred” (in fact, thousands of bikes traverse the High