[antisthenes]

Not enough incentives to use bikes in the policy then.

Not all countries and people are the same, so what maybe be enough incentive for 1 person or culture (oh, they made bike lanes? I'm going to bike to work now! versus oh, the road still has cars on it? I'm not biking, because it's not safe!) is not enough for another.

Either way, the only one to blame here is the local government for either not doing enough research initially or not incentivizing people to use bikes over cars enough (e.g. we'll pay 50% of your new bike price up to $X )

[dakrootie]

Dude, I'd actually pay a toll to have safe, isolated bike lanes wherever I wanted to go. If there's not enough demand/money for bike lanes I'm sure others would pony up too. The lack of human-navigable roads in my neck of the woods (Florida) is astounding.