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I can't believe more people have figured this out yet. The simple answer is: money. The REAL answer is that money itself is the dominant life form on our planet. Humans are powerless against anything that allows money to congregate and reproduce. Billionaires are quite literally the reproductive organs of the money demon that rules us. Politicians are the brain. We (the tax paying citizens) are the food.
So why do we drive cars instead of riding bikes? Money wills it so.
Sure, that's why.
Let me hop on my bike for the 12-mile round trip to the nearest grocery store. No idea how I'm getting anything home though.
It's a quick trip out to our camp in the swamp, only 52-miles out and back, 3 miles of which are impassable on a bike. I'll just carry it over my head.
Then I'll make the quick 625-mile round trip to pick up my kids 4 times a year. Hope they got their own bikes!
"But if we all lived packed in like rats in arcologies, we wouldn't need cars!"
It's one of those things where people imagine they're going to go on a big road trip... someday. Some may have done this when they were younger and imagine they'll do it again because they aren't too old for that yet.
But the reality is having to plan to go places in specific routes at specific times to avoid traffic, sitting bumper to bumper in gridlock cursing out all of the idiot drivers all around you, while constantly being stressed one of the most expensive things you own might get damaged. Then voting for someone to fix the problem of all of the other idiots on the road because you're the only one that isn't an idiot... but you definitely are one of the idiot drivers.
But maybe this weekend you'll take a road trip and enjoy the freedom. Well not this weekend, you're too exhausted from commuting 15 hours this week to be able to get up before sunrise to beat the cottage country traffic. But next weekend you'll enjoy that freedom for sure!
I've only seen someone try to cycle on the roads around me twice in almost 20 yrs living here, and both times there was a line of cars a mile long waiting their turn to get around him. He was lucky he didn't die.
I also know several people who live in actually-bikable areas not too far from me who have taken out loans to buy bikes. It's not difficult to spend $3k, you can well upwards of $10k if you want high end. But yeah you can still buy a piece of garbage from Walmart for $250.
You should visit one of the university cities in the Netherlands, and then tell me if you're still fine with cities designed around bike traffic.
Edit: this one's on me for getting down voted. In my experience, if you go to the university cities, you have to have eyes in the back of your head as a pedestrian. There's alway some cyclist coming from a random direction at high speed, ringing the bell and expecting you to give way (even in pedestrian zones). So as a cyclist it's probably nice, as a pedestrian not so much.