You WANT people riding bikes. Every bike on the road is a car not on the road. Every car not on the road decreases congestion for the remaining cars and decreas

You WANT people riding bikes. Every bike on the road is a car not on the road. Every car not on the road decreases congestion for the remaining cars and decreases pollution for everyone. It should be as frictionless as possible for people of all ages and abilities to ride bikes in a city. Bike riders also pay taxes because they usually are able to actually live in the city where they work and ride their bike, so they're more likely to be paying property tax to the city, sales taxes to local merchants, actually being around on the evenings and weekends to patronize local business etc, instead of just commuting in during the day, creating traffic and then leaving the place a ghost town after 5pm.