Cycling has doubled in Paris. Yes, it's realistic to think American cities can also have large amounts of cycle commuters. We just have to actually build bike lanes. And desu, we have the space.https://momentummag.com/paris-cycling-numbers-double/
>>2031034>American cities canOf course they can but the average american thinks you'll take their 'right' away to drive into any city with their 3ton behemoth.Also obesity takes a big part in the planning of infrastructure.You simply cant built a 15 minute/cycle city like amsterdam when 60-70% of your population is overweight.You'll literally exclude them from participating in public space.
>>2031034sovl vs. soulless
I have bike lanes, and bike paths.Really the only reason I don't bike commute is a mixture of paranoia(of my bike getting stolen) and the distance.Still, I will try to change that soon enough.BITD I commuted to middle school, high school, and college on my bike.Mentally helped me a lot.
>>2031039retard
>>2031044What? Im 100% serious. You can only transform a city if the population is in favour of the change. And the american zeitgeist is not ready for such radical changes yet. Individual freedom is still seen as the most important thing and i even agree with that but you need to change if you want to live in densely populated areas.
>>2031046you are blaming on being fat when its more about Americans not wanting to live near minorities and Americans having a deep fear/hatred of government control and preference to be in a more rural and locally controlled area than in a city they have no say in. in comparison to the dutch who are such fucking spineless slaves no country aided in the holocaust more than the netherlands
>>2031046>You can only transform a city if the population is in favour of the change.We can see in Paris that there is a lot of people unhappy with the changes, but the mayor and her bobo pals can force it down anyway. There's complaints from business owners about people no longer being able to access their shops easily, and of course supporters just double down and call them liars, idiots, and shills. Same thing in America, there's bike lanes going up in major cities and whenever there's serious pushback, out come the "oil-brained cager boomers" talk even if the area has consistently voted Democrat since the Carter administration.
