Gimme the crystal ball.

A battle coming to a city near you, a battle over a brainwave foisted on citizens like a piece of ugly public art and growing with no end in sight.

Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas was saying nothing Wednesday.

Calgary city hall paper shufflers. How to describe them? A brick wall people bang their heads against.

The UCP government wants simple information about all the individual bike lanes in Calgary and Edmonton.

After all, they are planning to roll out a long-awaited law this fall where they could step in and stop new bike lanes from being built and rip out bike lanes already built.

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Voices tell us Edmonton city hall is willing to sit down with the province to discuss the bike lane hot potato.

Meanwhile, in Calgary, we hear little of value.

Back in April, the provincial government headed up by Premier Danielle Smith asked Calgary city hall paper shufflers to provide information on each bike lane in the city.

The province had already sent letters going back to the bad old days of former mayor Jyoti Gondek and got nowhere.

This time, Calgary city hall bigshots do what city hall bigshots do best. They play games.

They are........

© Calgary Herald