> "... or if you have kids giving up your car is enormously inconvenient." > "Yes, you can teach your kids to ride, but cycling is still much more dangerous th

> "... or if you have kids giving up your car is enormously inconvenient." > "Yes, you can teach your kids to ride, but cycling is still much more dangerous than driving." > "Yes, you can rent a car or get an uber as needed, but it’s far more convenient to just jump in one’s own car." > "Yes, you can prepare for really cold or precipitous weather to a degree, but it’s way more convenient to simply not have to monitor the weather all the time and tote around your extra cycling clothes." > "And there’s really nothing you can do about hot weather unless your destination has a shower or you can otherwise make do with being sweaty." > "The best I can realistically do is family car + bike." I don't think I've ever seen or heard anyone before portraying the weather and transporting oneself without a car as such an ordeal and struggle. Though, if you life well outside the city I can understand the position. When I grew up (in what was then a ~230k pop. city) only one single kid in my class had parents that cared about having a car, and all of us managed just fine getting to and from school, friends and various activities by foot, bicycle and public transport. We survived, and we turned out OK - perhaps more than OK, with a bit of the fortitude of not expecting or requiring constant conveniences or suffering the perspective that any transport without car is "enormously inconvenient".