Okay, one quick dip into P&R, if you will indulge me.

This is simple. By far the biggest driver in this is that we have long had an apparently easy way to get around. People are not stupid. People are efficient. We have believed that cars are the easiest and cheapest and most efficient way to get around so long that cars (and car culture and car infrastructure) seems like human nature now.

When that no longer appears to be the case for us, we will look farther afield for ways to get around. And restructure our lives around that. I would guess that bikes will be a large part of that.

Perhaps we are seeing some rumblings of that now. I suspect we are. But the real changes are still waiting for us.

jim