[asdff]

Massive ongoing investment into roads. EV incentives that would pay for 3-4 ebikes outright. Big 3 bailout. Cash for clunkers. Impact fees from developers towards roads. As others said parking requirements. There is so much beyond that too.

[ErroneousBosh]

> Massive ongoing investment into roads

Okay, let's stop spending money on roads then.

How are you at riding your bike through mud? Pretty good? Got nice chunky tyres?

[adrianN]

Road wear increases with the fourth power of axle weight iirc. Bike paths are orders of magnitude cheaper and need a lot less space.

[ErroneousBosh]

> Road wear increases with the fourth power of axle weight iirc

That's not actually true, and the paper that describes the "fourth power" thing even says that right up front.

If you massively oversimplify the model so that you've got all vehicles fitted with infinitely hard bicycle tyres on a perfectly smooth surface, it kind of works out, but not quite.

[adrianN]

Interesting! Nevertheless I believe it is true that bike and pedestrian paths are much cheaper to construct and maintain than roads for cars and trucks.

[ErroneousBosh]

Probably.

How do you plan on getting food?

[adrianN]

Most roads are not used for delivering goods, so if we'd just reduce private car use that would already be a great improvement. If you want to go even further, rail has a lot of potential left.

[throw0101a]

> How are you at riding your bike through mud? Pretty good? Got nice chunky tyres?

Bicyclists were the ones to first push for paved roads:

* https://www.history.com/articles/good-roads-movement-bicycli...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_American_Bicyclists#...