San Francisco alone has budgeted over a billion dollars for cycle lanes, and since 2013 has managed to decrease it’s % of cycling commuters from 3.8% to 3.1%. T

San Francisco alone has budgeted over a billion dollars for cycle lanes, and since 2013 has managed to decrease it’s % of cycling commuters from 3.8% to 3.1%. There are some cities in the world that have a high demand for cycling infrastructure, in those cities it makes sense to spend money on it. There are 0 cities in the world that have managed to build a cycling culture out of infrastructure spending. This “built it and they will come” idea has been so thoroughly debunked, you have to be drinking some rather strong coolaid to still have any faith in it. If you look at the numbers, it turns out that it’s better to spend infrastructure budget on things people actually want to use.