The bike lane did not remove any vehicle capacity but instead took the place of what had been a 'breakdown' lane. Congestion on the bridge is still occurring at the same places and in relatively the same levels that it did before the lane went in - namely, before the toll plaza, according to Klein.
Klein said that motor-vehicle incidents on the bridge since the bike lane opened generally do not involve injuries, and that overall they are down about fifteen to twenty percent over the course of the day, but up during the morning peak hours. It's unclear what affect the pandemic has had on them - or whether slightly slower traffic speeds next to the bike barrier may have contributed to reducing their numbers.
"I'd like to point out that you have 37 years' worth of data on how the bridge functions without a bike lane, and only four years of bike lane data," said Robert Prinz, Advocacy Director of Bike East Bay, during yesterday's BCDC hearing on the topic.
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