This idea that cars - which are a vastly more expensive and often slower way to get around cities - are by fundamental nature of the working class while bicycle

This idea that cars - which are a vastly more expensive and often slower way to get around cities - are by fundamental nature of the working class while bicycles belong to the elite, borders on the absurd. It's only this way because North American urban design forces lower-income people into least-common denominator poorly planned areas where cars are the only practical way to navigate. It doesn't have to be like that.