I feel like biking to work is being promoted just for the sake of polishing city's reputation. Cities would build all these fancy facilities, which are grossly expensive infrastructure to build and maintain, just for sake of feeling that they did something to solve traffic problems. Everyone is aware of problems a biker faces on everyday commute(lack of amenities at work, not safe, weather, lack of infrastructure and motor driver's attitude) all of which needs to be solved for more people to adopt biking.