Originally Posted by John Forester
Your earlier statement was "Of course, the American Dream Coalition has already achieved their dream ..."
I do not feel responsible for your errors in understanding the English that you use.
As for love it or leave it, why not? If you so dislike the motoring city and much prefer the cycling city, then go to such a city. Nobody that I know is stopping you.
What you should not do is to advocate the installation in a motoring city of bikeways suitable to a pre-motoring obsolete city, in the expectation that this will produce a cycling city. Not only will that not occur, but it will harm those cyclists who are operating in the modern city.
Your "this is the way it is and we've just got to live with it" attitude stinks, John. Shame on you, we can do better. Foresterology is an anachronism, 30 years old, 30 years out of date. You're an old-school motor-vehicles-first traffic engineer, John. You should step aside and let a younger generation take the next step.
PS - pre-motoring cities are not obsolete, pre-automobile inner cities are the most valuable pieces of real estate in the urban environment today. It's the suburban wasteland that is obsolete.