TL; DR $ person transported/km for highways >> subway For all the cons you quoted. Living in montréal, biking all year. The problem is much more the diffusi

TL; DR $ person transported/km for highways >> subway For all the cons you quoted. Living in montréal, biking all year. The problem is much more the diffusion of the flux (aggravated by graph partition and an asymmetry of rules making turning left strongly discouraged). They don't seem to have any engineers studying hydrodynamics, percolation, diffusion or geometry or physics in their offices. They reason in terms of big arteries and making car go consistently fast there (50) and construction costs and rely on magic for congestion and diffusion. Riding a bike feels like you are gonna die every morning. Especially in winter. They weirdly enough make expensive dangerous bike paths to solve the problem that are more likely to cause accidents than none. And they evaluate that a fall from a bike make cyclists safe with a 50 cm security distance (I am quite taller and when I fall, it is much more 1m20 margin). Let's say that even if some jerks found it funny to scare cyclists and sometimes bump them, on the 99.99% distribution they are nice people but a tad forgetting to watch there mirrors when opening their 50 cm doors in my 80 cm "safe" space on the streets. Had some bruises, fears, strong words and went to the hospital get my wife after some accidents. Still alive, though. Still alive. Pretty proud of us and faster/cheaper than most transportations (car and subways included).