Bike lanes and pedestrian sidewalks can transport more people per minute than the car lane(s).
So if/when you do need to use a car, you'll actually find less people in your way.
well, they have some strong arguments.
In my Country cars are worth 77 billion euros in taxes every year.
If my country was a free market utopia like US, people would be screaming that they paid for those roads and it's their right to use them exclusively.
Bikes aren't worth that much, unfortunately.
Are roads funded exclusively from tax collected from car taxes? Aren’t bicycle and public transport users also funding roads also? Even if indirectly, by going to a shop that use those roads for supplies.
As far as I heard, roads cost a LOT to maintain (and more to build). 77 billion might be a small bucket in the ocean depending on the country.
This is public space, your freedom to drive a car impacts my commute time by bus.
It doesn’t, but it does mean that you can’t dedicate 100% of street space and 75% of space for businesses to cars. And some drivers seem to interpret losing any sliver of their dominance over the streets as “hell for cars,” making this a tough battle.