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> This is an entirely ridiculous take - bicycling is just as active a form of transportation as walking is.

No, it's not, at least not in an urban environment with traffic and red lights (assuming you don't run them). Cycling is a non-load-bearing exercise. Overweight people, having excess weight, would stand to benefit much more from having to support their excess bodyweight during exercise than sitting the whole time. And being non-load bearing, cycling does nothing for bone density, and if done to excess, actively harms it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230645/

Large segments of the population have given up on walking. Frankly, I think even regular non-e bikes and scooters should be discouraged by public policy in favor of walking. In my city, I see too many overweight people riding around leisurely on bikes who would be served much better by walking.