Counting the people on bikes before making proper cycling infrastructure to tell if it is necessery is wild.
"Build it and they will come" is true for transport infrastructure.
If the "it" is a network, not just a single path.
If you just connect 1 parking lot to the next and leave it at that, no one is going to use it even if you did your best to make it non-hostile to whatever mode of transport.
Another highway lane it is! /s
You don't determine demand for a bridge by measuring the number of swimmers.
You don't determine demand for a jacuzzi by measuring the number of…? Angry people? Sunburns? Muppets talking through a fan?
Car owners with car that can go from 0kmph to 80kmph in just a few second: where is our bridge? You can't make us go 4km out there to use that bridge while cyclist get to use a shortcut!
Here is their bridge.
But, everybody can buy cars.
Yeah, but can everybody afford maintain it? Can environment sustain it? What about the load each car adds to a cities infrastructure?
Dark Souls players hate this comic
/s
The comic could be interpreted as pro-car. More people can drive than can bike.
More people can drive than can bike.
Lol is this true in the US? There is seriously something wrong with your country.
There must be something wrong with your cars if bicycling is easier than driving.
There must be something wrong with your bicycles.
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