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i mean, kinda? my city has a couple really good bike paths and most of its roads that have wide rightmost lanes for bikes to ride in and cars can pass safely. I drive across town in 15 minutes. I can bike across town in 20, and that's taking time to stop for kittens i see on the ride and see if they will come and get scritches. Because how can you see a cute outdoor kitten and not stop and see if it will come up to you for pets and forehead kisses (damn you pavlov). 30 years ago it was not friendly to bicyclists at all and i think the solution was one or two of the city council or the secret town council of elders becoming lycra dudes.
Unless your city only has a couple roads, you need to remove some roads and make them into bicycle and pedestrian thoroughfares. Cars control way too much of our cities, and non drivers have to subsidize both cars and suburbs.
nah, our city isn't facing the problems where we need to do that. yet. we have a few "downtown" streets we've done that on (entirely through the quarantine, just weekends now for the farmer's market that has grown so large the big park downtown can no longer contain it, which makes me very proud of my town).
most everyone who commutes here, they are commuting far longer than a bicycle can take them and we have been fighting to get regional public transit system connected (that is a billion dollar project though, bigger than my pull which is "hey get this dude some food")