[mantas]

Oldtown is mostly for tourists/partying nowadays (as in before the whole Corona mess). Offices and everyday shops/services are moving out for the past 2 decades. Living downtown is getting less and less desirable too because students are priced out while older folks don't want 24/7 party all around. No bike paths will change that.

On the bright side, no sane person drives into oldtown for a looong time. Especially after recent raise of parking fees. Quite a few streets are already car-free. Transit traffic is going to be banned any time now (said for the past 5 or 10 years, but eventually it will happen).

As for bike paths, few neighbourhoods were well connected for decade+. More and more connections are being built. Terrain and city density is not exactly friendly though. Downtown is, well, down in a valley. While banks ain't truly steep, living in a flat country it is quite a mental stop. On top of that, lots of people live in soviet-era blocks 5km+ from downtown. Add that bike paths ain't bee-line straight and it ends up a 30min+ ride one way for a beer.