> when you have the vast suburban sprawl that the USA has it's not safe to bike Sprawl does not make it unsafe to bike; it's a lack of safe cycling infrastruct

> when you have the vast suburban sprawl that the USA has it's not safe to bike Sprawl does not make it unsafe to bike; it's a lack of safe cycling infrastructure that does that. It would take a small fraction of the space given to cars to make it perfectly safe to bike. Now as you also mention, sprawl may make it impractical to bike. That said... the distances between things in suburbia are often artificially inflated as well. This 21-minute walk to a grocery store near where I used to live could be cut down to maybe two minutes if you were to take down the fence blocking it off: https://goo.gl/maps/iujAxMRRMCRs4YzW9 https://goo.gl/maps/iujAxMRRMCRs4YzW9