Canada

The bike argument always forgets people with disabilities, older people, people with health conditions, people with kids.

You’re not going to the grocery store and shopping for a family of 5 on a bike, regardless of whether it’s the middle of a blizzard or a perfect sunny summer day. You’re not picking up Billy at violin lessons and Sarah at karate lessons and Jim at swimming lessons at 3 different locations spread across the city on a bike.

And then there’s just the issue of commuting to work. People generally already live as close to work as they can afford. People who can afford to bike to work are doing so by choice.

As far as “a society that focuses on this or that,” that’s the hard part. Getting society to come together and solve an issue, any issue, is the hardest thing to do in life. Nearly all the problems in the world exist because we can’t manage to do that. The fact that some societies, such as the Netherlands, manage to beat the odds is basically a fluke. And NotJustBikes knows that! That’s why he gave up and moved there.

We have a Premiere who is currently having bike lanes removed via the courts, and making it illegal to remove a lane of traffic for bikes. I am not holding my breath.