"It's a bad "fix", but I'm now in favor of building the biggest possible freeways so that we can ride our bikes in peace on the surface roads"

Sad to say I tend to agree with your position. Makes more sense than spending more than half our transportation money on public transit projects that are only ridden by 5%-15% of the public. Not building roads didn't help much in our state. We greatly increased our population while only building 10 miles of new State Highway in 10 years.