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>Florida is also an interesting example

oooh, now do Texas. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Southern California

or, flip it. Do any of the states bordering Canada during winter.

I grew up in Southern California. You can bike year round, except for a couple of days a year when you have severe rain (which also floods a lot of roads) or wildfires. The primary reason people don’t are that the roads are unsafe by design and opposition to dense housing has pushed people into unsustainable lifestyles.

Minneapolis consistently has one of the highest rates of bike commuting of US cities.

Build the infrastructure and people ride bikes.

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