Its more dangerous, lots of people don't even want to bicycle because of the perceived and possibly actual real danger.

You're kidding right?

My dear, Bikes aren't cheap if you factor in the funeral costs!

Seriously though, the amount of additional risk of life/limb/etc you'd be taking by biking to work isnt worth saving an extra hour given the raised attentiveness you have to be on throughout the commute.

What we all really need is cheap selfdriving vanpool networks that dynamically optimizes routes based on traffic flows. or better yet hub-to-hub VTOL human transport drones. In all honesty I think we'll see those before we'll see legislative action helping the housing crisis.

I hear getting a superbike after you hit 30 pretty much guarantees you'll be dead within 18 months...if we required this for older commuters think of the pension costs that could be saved...seriously these discussions all seem to revolve around "how can we penalize someone to incentivize some solution?"

I'm happy this lady found a solution she was happy with. It's not like she's commuting to the salt mines in death race 2000...living in the Bay Area is a tangled web for anyone who doesn't have high 6 figures in disposable income. I gave up in disgust and voted with my feet.