[sirsar]

> bikers definitely have the environmental upper hand. But they do it by engaging in activity that is borderline reckless given the reality of American roads. I find it difficult to enthusiastically encourage that.

> Open to having my views changed on this.

If you agree that a world with more cyclists would be better (for the environment, for safety, maybe for public health), how do you suggest we get there? Encouraging change towards a better world often requires swimming upstream, shouldering some stress and discomfort and pressure, in order to exert pressure back on the system one wants to change.

Nobody will build safer bicycle infrastructure if nobody rides bicycles.