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Of course. You can't just paint a bike lane and expect people to ditch the car. The car has huge advantages: you can drive it in any weather, you don't need to follow a bus schedule, you can carry your whole family safely. You only convince people to replace the car with public transport or bike if those options become overwhelmingly convenient and safe. If the bus only comes twice an hour, only people who can't afford a car will use it.
As long as the car is the most convenient way to access cities, habits will not change. We need more streets restricted to bus and bike only, and more parking converted to bike lanes.
Tbh, there needs to be a more structured plan in shifting public infrastructure/zoning in a whmay that reshapes a city into the desired form of cycleable/walkable/public transportable city.
Absolutely. I've live in a city before where they deployed bike lanes as if all the counter was the number of kilometers. No plan whatsoever.
In environmental conservation, there's an old saw about how we're really good at preserving rocks and ice, i.e. places we can't make productive use of anyway. I've noticed exactly the same effect in urban planning: We're pretty good about prioritizing bike and pedestrian access where it doesn't affect drivers, i.e. places hardly anybody wants to go.