Originally Posted by
bkrownd
Here isn't there, and there isn't here. If some people are scared off by helmets, then IMO it's a good thing because those people obviously have no business mixing with motorized traffic on our streets. They can stay on the MUP where it's "safe".
You are entitled to your point of view, of course. And this POV will put us well on the way to decreasing the number of cyclists.
But I don't think that the OP was trying to decrease the number of cyclists. I think he was interested in increasing the number.
30 years or so ago, Copenhagen had very few cyclists, and people were skeptical that the city's cycling initiatives would do anything to change the behavior of car-centric Copenhageners. (I am not making this up.) So I don't see how the fact that they are "there" and we are "here" has any particular relevance to anything. If we want to increase the number of cyclists, we should look at what places that have successfully increased the number of cyclists have done.