Originally Posted by
John Forester
The fact that publicity did not persuade people to use a useless product does not demonstrate that publicity is powerless. Any publicity theorist will say that publicity has to have some sense of providing a benefit to the potential user; without such a hook, it doesn't work.
Either you didn't get what I said: that there was lots of publicity, promising people what they want, but that the Copenhagen cyclists after all "voted with their pedals".
...or you mean to say that publicity isn't that important after all, and then we agree: it's the actual improvement of conditions thaat will make (more) people bike.