Every day US citizens waste hours life with transportation. I do believe in cars but I also believe we need to reshape how we live. If the US government allows our time to be wasted repeatedly by a variety of lobbies building infrastructure for a variety of interests it shows how little our leadership values the time of our citizens. I almost find it more egregious that government wants to waste the time of our citizens than wanting to eventually kill ourselves with emissions.
The US currently has an oversupply of labour and I suggest the US does something with it to reshape infrastructure to be less energy reliant.
The world should look into outfit and create houses with manditory natural cooling/heating, increase density in cities and towns to reduce habitat distruction and sprawl, reduce emissions of high GWP chemicals, and create a global political situation to reduce reliance on a failing economic system that incentivizes people to hide pandemics.
You can get that 60 minutes of exercise/physical activity if the transportation to various destinations is changed into a form of exercise for all or some part of it. In the case of a bicycle, it does require that destinations are less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) away, otherwise it would take too much time.
That's only one factor. Another is car dependence and lack of pedestrian-friendly built environments.
There is a lot of research on just how much harm it does us to sit all day, every day. We sit in a car to make a long commute to work. We sit our desks. We sit in the car again.
And hitting the gym occasionally doesn't fully compensate for living like that.
Urban planners used to configure cities to help promote physical health and we don't do enough of that anymore. It's nigh impossible to escape a sick outcome when trapped in a sick system that makes healthy choices largely out of reach for most people.