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I feel like this is so obvious it should slap you in the face after thinking about it for more than 5 seconds.
If you aren't getting around on a bike, you're probably taking your car instead which is +1 car on the road that wouldn't have been there otherwise. Multiply this by however many cyclists are currently using the bike lanes.
I'd ride a bike instead of driving if I could, I simply don't feel safe with cube vans blitzing by me on a 2 lane road with no shoulder.
That's why I bike on the side walk, like every other bike heavy country
No shoulder no sidewalk and this street. But ya, I normally do the sidewalk too even though ok pretty sure it's technically illegal π
Bike heavy places will have dedicates bike lanes with structures that impede cars from entering into.
As for this in Canada, the city of Langley added some bike lanes on existing roads, and rather than be right next to car lane it is a few feet over, and they placed giant rectangular planter boxes in between lanes. It is not foolproof, but a car has to plough through tons of dirt to swipe a cyclist.
City of Surrey did some superwide multiuse paths, the only trouble is when they directly cross a turn lane, drivers still have a chance to crash into you.
Victoria had some curbed separated lanes.
Meanwhile Doug Ford in Edna Mode voice: Remove the Lanes !
This looks like a good report, but I don't think drivers really care much about collisions, and basing a report on them isn't helpful, since most people think that collisions are the exception and have nothing to do with them.
Instead, concentrating on how much more it delays the average commute is far better since that affects everybody on a daily basis. Even if the Ford government is willing to ignore reports like this, publicizing them and using them as ammo against Ford's policies is helpful since he's got such a weak spine, public backlash when you have public proof of him doing something objectively wrong that'll affect everybody negatively is effective against him.