Originally Posted by Mobile 155

I tend to agree. As a nation our mindset is for automatic powered transportation. We often talk about infrastructure to make it easier for people to ride bikes and then are surprised when the masses don't take up cycling after the infrastructure is made. But it might be more telling in that with all of the sidewalks in all of the cities in the US the average person in the US will not walk more than a mile a day. I believe I read somewhere it was a mile or less haven't checked on that for a while. All I remember is we tend to walk very little here compared to other nations. I am not making a judgement on that only saying I doubt there are many people just waiting to get out of their cars and cycle to work in this country. So rather than wishing the people would wake up and build a infrastructure like they have in the Netherlands cyclists simply need to cycle more and then the community might add infrastructure to meet the needs of the cyclists. Things like the Colorado law mandating a 3 foot passing space between cars and cyclists go a long way in the right direction in my opinion.