Originally Posted by
salcedo
Those proposals sound great, but you need to find the political will to implement them.The global political situation is highly polarized between the right and the left, and this manifests in most aspects of life, including cycling. Cycling is mostly associated with the left. Getting massive city transformations without at least some support from the right is an uphill battle.
True, and allthough I believe the true hard right is not interested in reducing health costs, to the contrary, there are things about cycling that must appeal to the right. You can have extra economic activity like sidewalk cafés when you get rid of cars and their noise in a certain area, especially when CUI isn't prosecuted fanatically. But you can also have more economic activity in a city if people can get around quicker, with less trouble and have more meetings and visit more places to spend money in one day.