the desire to mainstream bicycling thru interventions that support greater community participation in bicycling is inclusive, empowering, and mainstream, NOT 'divisive'.

leave the fracturing to the avid, rabid cyclists that pretend laws about cycling do not say what they mean (FTR, anyone???), and try to block infrastructure that supports greater participation in cycling - there's where the 'divisive' lives!

The author is rightfully dismissive of american road culture. why do cyclists have to be avid to commute five miles to work on a bicycle? why isnt' bicycling more mainstream and less avid in america?

how come Germany's senior citizens participate in transportational cycling by a FACTOR greater than america's 'avid' bicyclists? Denmark had problems with the car culture in copenhagen in the 60s. there, they decided to inculcate populist bicycling, now a third of trips in copenhagen are undertaken by bicycle.

impressive. but there's little room for spandex in a paceline of bakkfiets ridden by mothers in far more stylish garb than the typical american bike commuter uniform of yellowjackets on a bike with enough lights to signal outer space & distracted drivers.

Yellow jackets squeezed into spandex and breathlessly bolstering their mettle by dogmatically repeating 'we ride like cars, dangnabit!' is a clear cut case of a dysfunctional transportation paradigm.