From the SF Chronicle (
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/...y-19078284.php)
"But the new bike path has not exacerbated congestion that beset the Richmond-San Rafael corridor long before its installation. In reality, travel times have remained stable. [...] An analysis by California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology — the UC Berkeley institute in charge of evaluating the bridge bike path — looked at peak morning commute times between 7 and 8 a.m. from Interstate 80 in Albany to the east end of the bridge. That trip took 27 minutes, on average, in 2017 and 2018. [The path opened in 2019] In 2019 and 2021 — two years after the bike path opened — the same trip took 21 minutes. [2020 was an anomaly because of the COVID shutdown]. "
That said, if people don't use data to make decisions, showing them data won't get them to change their minds.