Downtown Jersey City, where I live, has a ton of bike lanes. can't make a turn without finding one. And last year we joined up with NYC's bike share program, CitiBike, and launched it all over town. In the last 2 weeks we added 15 new CitiBike stations around town. Considering our proximity to NYC it's a match made in heaven since most folks that live here commute to NYC. Ride your CitiBike to the PATH station and take that into Manhattan, then hop on another CitiBike and ride to work. It's quite perfect. Unfortunately other neighborhoods don't quite have the density of bike infrastructure as downtown JC does, but that is being worked upon.

I have zero financial interest in more people hopping on a bike. I could care less about the money. I do have mine and other cyclists' safety invested - the more cyclists giddy up, at some point more drivers become acclimated to them, the safer it gets. Rinse and repeat. I also believe in the bicycle as a means of transportation or exercise that is overall a positive influence on the environment around us both in regards to pollution, climate change and individual health.

Some people will find their way to bicycling no matter what we do, that is correct. But plenty of people need a nudge to change their ways even just a little bit or to try something new. Nothing wrong with giving it to them if done politely and ethically.

Maybe ET, wherever that is, needs more bike lanes not wider ones.

I've seen numerous people on here whine about 'more bicycles' initiatives bemoaning that it will crowd up where they currently ride. Hard to tell when they are kidding or not in a non-verbal environment.