No not all. I happen to like Toronto, but I grew up in Burlington and know how many people waste 3-4 hours a day commuting in on the QEW and 401/403 (and now 407). My point was, when you have such a large portion of the Canadian population who lives really far from where they work, 70% of people saying they'd ride to work if they have a bike lane is pretty hard to believe. As far as the urban sprawl goes, Calgary is definetly suffering from it, but its still orders of magnitude lower than golden horseshoe. Even if you live in some of the farther neighbourhoods, its still possible to get to work by bike in about an hour.

Read the article. It doesn't say 70 percent of all people everywhere would bike. Just those within a 30 minute commute range.