Not everyone lives close enough to work to be able to reasonably bike there. If I biked to work it would be 30km in heavy traffic every day, rain or snow or shi

Not everyone lives close enough to work to be able to reasonably bike there. If I biked to work it would be 30km in heavy traffic every day, rain or snow or shine. The usual response to this is to tell me to live closer to work. I would love to do that, but every km I move closer to work is a km we move further from my husband's work. If I wasn't driving or taking the bus, he would be, definitely. In today's reality, most couples are expected/required to have both partners work, and we've yet to figure out how to solve that 2-body problem on a wide scale. More telecommuting would help, but many companies are still strongly resistant to it even when it's possible. The society that you live in needs the people living >10km from work to be able to get to work and I guarantee that if this wasn't possible anymore, you would feel the hit. If people could only get jobs at places within biking distance, unemployment would skyrocket, as would the number of unfillable job openings. The cascading effect of that would be huge. Have fun with that.