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I am amazed how some people think that with more facilities everyone will start cycling. It is fun but also quite impractical and sometimes very uncomfortable. It is only really feasible for most people if they live close to their work. Cars make people live much further.

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Not everyone. Around here however more and more people bike.

Me I drive the car some days and the bike other days. I wish for bike lanes equally much when I'm in the car and when I'm on my bike. (I'm a biker so I'm allowed to say this: Yes you are allowed to ride you bike in the main street around here but it shows a real lack of understanding when you have a row of cars queing up behind you, and a choice between a sidewalk, another route and several less crowded streets to choose from and still choose to use the main road.)

I think it'll definitely make biking more approachable for people who are interested but scared to ride next to vehicles and their inattentive drivers. One side benefit of lots of bike lanes is that they're also good spaces for people on foot, sidewalks kind of aren't necessary so long as you follow basic ideas about slower traffic to the right and faster traffic to the left.

Actually we all hope that with more facilities living much closer to your work becomes more viable.

> I am amazed how some people think that with more facilities everyone will start cycling.

I didn't say everyone will start cycling, I said more people will start cycling. Please stop attacking a straw man.

Perhaps the solution is to live closer to where you work.

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