By Eric Boerer 

Listening to debates before last week’s mayoral primary, one could be led to think that bike lanes are at fault for all of Pittsburgh’s woes. Mayor Bill Peduto’s opponents painted bike lanes as frivolous niceties, or as dangerous, unplanned infrastructure that appear out of nowhere and serve no real purpose. The Rev. John Welch and Councilwoman Darlene Harris didn’t discuss bike lanes as infrastructure that can help save lives, keep more money in families’ pockets, address our poor air quality, reduce congestion or shrink our ever-expanding waistlines. They used them as a wedge to divide.

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