[aetherson]

Bikes: a desperate demand for society to subsidize the hobby of high-status individuals.

Why should we allocate scarce infrastructure land for marginal increases in bike-lanes (that are chronically under-used), for perhaps uniquely the worst form of transit?

If someone told you that they wanted you to provision funding/space for a new form of transit that was:

* Slow/short range

* Impractical in all but basically nice weather

* Requires parking

* Not family-friendly

* Not friendly for the elderly or anyone who is disabled to almost any definition of "disabled"

* Unsafe

* Has low to no cargo capacity

You'd call them crazy. But somehow we've got the meme that bikes are good.

[trgn]

Bikes and cars can coexist. It's not one or the other.

Just visited philadelphia. Used to be clogged with cars. Now it's still clogged with cars. But also has great new bike infrastructure with lots of bikers (that weren't there 15 years ago)

The city is better for it, more mobility options, less noisy, less degraded. So awesome!