Yeah, honestly, you don't have to go that far to get to a point where biking becomes hellish. By the time you hit St. Clair the cycling network is already sparse, which in turn makes driving easier / necessary, which then makes people more car focused.

It's a feedback loop problem that can go either direction. I genuinely think that Ford and his friends are just fucking morons and don't understand how self defeating they're being in the long run.