Meanwhile, in São Paulo, the mayor is trying very hard to remove bike lanes already built, and are passing laws that make it a lot harder to build new ones.
Combine that with the fact that São Paulo is a city where people seems to love cars more than their relatives and have an upper class that oppose bike lanes in front of their houses because "people that ride bikes aren't the kind of people that we want in our neighborhood" and you have a recipe for disaster.
These people (the upper class, not the middle) are also against subway expansion because it would be easier for people from the poorer regions of the city to come to their neighborhoods.
It's a mix of car loving, a party hate and prejudice that makes São Paulo a complete chaotic city when we're talking about transport.
I love São Paulo, have a lot of friends there, but almost everything that is being done right now seems to be in the opposition of the public interest.
Guess why the D.C. Metro doesn’t go to Georgetown and the Phoenix light rail doesn’t go to Scottsdale?
(To be fair, the bike lanes weren't perfect but they should have been improved instead of removed)