I find the exuberance around cycling from this primarily California audience fairly grating.
Cycling is great... in the handful of months the weather allows for it in northern states.
It's also frustrating that cities are looking to make driving worse, but not (generally) to build rail infrastructure to make transit better.
I was once enthusiastic about carless urban life, but after experiencing it for a while... all the things you mentioned are likely to push me out into the exurbs.
When London looked at the population growth and how it could "keep" the city moving, they needed to get 5% of the population cycling all year round. It is very much a nudge psychology.
Cycling is great... in the handful of months the weather allows for it in northern states.
It's also frustrating that cities are looking to make driving worse, but not (generally) to build rail infrastructure to make transit better.
I was once enthusiastic about carless urban life, but after experiencing it for a while... all the things you mentioned are likely to push me out into the exurbs.