This is political suicide.

A lot of mayors all over the world has been reelected by campaigning for better bike infrastructure.

Resources

The bikelash paradox: how cycle lanes enrage some but win votes | Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2021/oct/29/the-bikelash-paradox-how-cycle-lanes-enrage-some-but-win-votes

https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/raf5s2/the_bikelash_paradox_how_cycle_lanes_enrage_some/

This is an article about politicians getting reelected even being probike. There are some opposition but those don’t translate to votes.

Here are the politicians and what they did:

Milan’s mayor, Giuseppe Sala, earlier this month won reelection after reclaiming 22,000 sq meters of vehicle lanes to create 38 neighbourhood plazas over three years and 22 miles (35km) of cycling and walking space on main travel corridors
London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, won reelection in May after creating or completing 160 miles (260km) of new bike routes. Faced with an opponent who vocally opposed improvements for cycling and walking, the Labour mayor won 55% of the vote in the runoff.
Paris: Anne Hidalgo, second term, spurred a cycling golden age, building hundreds of kilometres of bike lanes, turning the crosstown Rue de Rivoli into a churning bike- and bus-priority corridor, and pedestrianised a highway along the right bank of the Seine. Intense opposition and driver protests did not translate into votes: Hidalgo won by a margin of 18 percentage points in the second round of voting.
- Paris to keep new cycling paths beyond pandemic - France 24
  
  https://www.france24.com/en/20200916-paris-to-keep-new-cycling-paths-beyond-pandemic
  - https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/transport-politics/2021/12/cycle-lanes-dont-cause-congestion-but-theres-money-to-be-made-in-pretending-they-do
  - https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/rbo9e6/cycle_lanes_dont_cause_congestion_but_theres/
- How to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City - Paris - YouTube - Not Just Bikes
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI-1YNAmWlk
  
  You can see him saying that Mayor Anne Hidalgo is reelected on the promise of removing 70,000 parking spaces at 5:40.
Barcelona mayor, Ada Colau, reelected by the city’s council after expanding citywide biking corridors and creating innovative “superblocks”
Oslo, reelected mayor Marianne Borgen in 2019, removed most of the city’s downtown parking spaces to ease pollution.
Clover Moore in Sydney has already won three reelections despite strong blowback to her pro-cycling agenda; she is now running to win a fifth term in December.
Tel Aviv’s electorate reelected Ron Huldai partly owing to his bike-lane and pedestrian space actions
New York City’s transportation commissioner and department spokesperson under mayor Mike Bloomberg, who won a third term in 2009 just months after pedestrianising Broadway at Times Square and after building 200 miles (322km) of bike lanes in two years.

The Innovative Way Ghent, Belgium Removed Cars From The City - YouTube - Streetfilms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEOA_Tcq2XA

At 8:23, there was push back for the circulation at first. But when it died down, the plan worked tremendously.