Pro-Bikes but Anti-Hybrid

I commute with a human-diesel hybrid: biking the nice bits (Stanley Park and Vancouver harbor) and busing for the busy, hilly, boring bits of Vancouver. Unfortunately, City Council is planning to make my commute much more difficult, by restricting lanes of the Burrard Bridge bottleneck to bicycles.

As a bike commuter, people think I'd favor this change. They forget that many of us that use bikes to commute a ways (20 km in my case, from the far left shore in this picture focused on UBC) often use the bus to save time and sweat.

Vancouver is beautiful in summer, attacting many tourists. My summer bus often gets stuck in tourist traffic, forcing me to hop off early to escape the crowds and heat. With the new bike lane I'll likely need to bail out even earlier. At least I'll have a lane of my own to cross the extra bridge. (To climb it, I'm thinking of buying an Bionx e-bike. Any advice?)

Lesson for Technology & Ethics: It's easy to misidentify prospective winners and losers on a change in regulation. As a bike commuter, I'm likely counted a winner from adding a bike lane. Had someone asked, I'd have self-identified on the loser side.