Tandempower:
When have you seen a society catch on and return to cycling? Greece was faced with this exact problem and they voted "Against" austerity. When they were about to be cut off to save the country from bankruptcy the head of Greece agreed to cut backs and repayment do for his efforts he is being replaced by someone that is against austerity. And they haven't gone back to bikes. The fall of the USSR didn't get the people on bikes and now China has their very own stock market.