[LeonidasXIV]

> People own cars to serve this need, because nothing else will (unless you're in a mega-city that can afford to run high-frequency mass transport 24/7).

Uhm, I guess then 600.000 inhabitant Copenhagen must be this mega-city where high-frequency mass transport runs 24/7 (a driverless metro) and people use bikes to get around in stochastic patterns at arbitrary times of day (because there are bike lanes everywhere).

[alanfranzoni]

Copenhagen is exceptionally well designed IMHO, from both the biking side and the public transport side. Not all the cities are that way, and some just don't have enough room for such amenities - consider many cities in Italy with much narrower roads and many slopes, as an example.