Bikes need more infrastructure, not insults

ON February 14, the city of Makati delivered a message that was quite the opposite of the spirit of love for Valentine's Day, informing the city's many bicycle and other forms of active mobility users that the protected bike lanes along Ayala Avenue would be removed the next day. To be clear, the lanes would still exist, but they would be turned into shared lanes, or "sharrows" — a word we have never heard before, and hope to never hear again — accessible to regular motor vehicle traffic.