The world looks very different depending on where you live. Where I live I could do without a car if I really tried. I know lots of people don't even have a drivers license (at the age of 65). The E-Bike is a good solution for most older people, the younger ones can still use the normal bikes. We have winters with lots of snow and temperatures below -20 C. The road network is built for bicycles, I can get from one side of town to the other without ever following the same road as cars. I might have to cross a road a few times but often that is done on a different level than the cars, I just have to do a little planning. The roads are cleared of snow within a few hours of snowfall unless it's apocalyptic ammounts which happens about once or twice per winter. Then it can take 1-2 days before all roads are useable. But it's still possible to take the main bike roads into the city center and hospital where most of the jobs are.

That was a cool story, but not cool enough to give up my car.

> The world looks very different depending on where you live.

I would agree if ever I had the chance to see it. I would love to live in a friendlier world.

Around here though we don't live in the same world as you.

I guess it's just confusing everyone why you seem to keep denigrating bike advocates instead of the planners, consultants, and bureaucratic systems that made biking so bad for you in your part of the world.

There is a difference between denigrating a thing, and critiquing it realistically. I think that humans riding bicycles is a good thing. I also recognize that we cannot transport goods in such a fashion to keep the world running as we know it.

This goes both ways. Suburban and rural living is the minority globally. Car owners are the minority globally. Single family homes are the minority of housing globally. Are you sure it's not you living in a bubble?

The "bubble" is a place where planners worked hard to make things work well.

There's nothing magical about it. Political and technical decisions make the difference between people having to waste time and risk everyone's lives moving around in cars, vs being able to accomplish their daily needs quickly and easily on foot or bike.

The fact that such places exist proves it is possible. They weren't always this way, but they wanted it to be this way, and they made it so. The same can happen almost anywhere, given faith and commitment.

> The fact that such places exist proves it is possible.

No one claimed that it is impossible to exploit the masses for the gain of the few. What I am saying is that you wouldn't have those things without a much dirtier world providing them.