The infrastructure sabotage was done as a part of the Zero Vision program, that included both pedestrian and bike safety. It achieved neither.

> And since cycling has increased ~25% over the same time frame

The percentage of bike commutes in Seattle is in the noise, around 2-3% of the non-remote-work commutes. So the data is too noisy for any reasonable statistical significance.

For example, this year was deadly with 4 cyclist deaths (to date). In 2024 there were no cyclist deaths.