And not just fat people. It helps prevent cardiovascular diseases.

For me the biggest benefit aside from generally increased fitness is how it helps with my mental health. It's hardly a new revelation that exercising regularly is good for your mental health. But it's so much easier to get yourself to move when you have to to get somewhere than it is if it's purely for exercise. At least for me.

We can keep going. Reducing the amount of fat people will ease the strain on hospital systems and health care expenses.

True story: I was just at presentation for cyclists... there were maybe 30 of us. Every single person, young and old, were trim and healthy looking.

Go to any car show, and let me know if you can say the same. LOL

It also help to just feel better in general.

dangerously fat people

This isn't a particularly nice phrasing - I think the same meaning could easily be conveyed with some slightly kinder choice of words.

That statement is just straight out false. Yes electric cars still represent a huge deal of energy needs for producing, but they are much, much more efficient at using energy than ICE cars. If I remember correctly it was something like 40% vs 90% energy efficiency? That's why if you put several electric cars connected in a row, place them on tracks, externalize the power source, and you get the most efficient way of travelling - trains.

I liked your comment, but there is a lot more space that could be regained for pedestrians as well if we cyclists took only the space we needed. Car infrastructure is easily converted into one, but not into the other and asphalt causes heat islands.

Bikes really are a downward spiral. First people don't need to spend 20% of your annual salary into their car so they have all this extra money that they can use.

Worse! Since they are now traveling through their city in open air rather in a glass and steel prison they might start noticing local businesses and spend their money there rather than the billionaire's owned giant box store.

And now that they arrive home on their bike they will stay to notice their neighbors, maybe even say hi and start building local communities. It's also much easier to build a local community when you don't have deadly machines that you need to avoid passing in front of your house all the time.

My $4k piece of carbon and $3k hunk of titanium would like to have a word...

I would bet just about anything that the only reason profit margins could possibly be higher for a car is due to volume

which, if everyone rode bikes, wouldn't be an issue at all.

Absolute profit, sure

cars are more expensive, so they'll win out.

Might be less of a difference than we would think since every shared car would presumably become multiple bikes.

Eg: Family of 4 that have 1 car, turns into 4 bikes?

Of course big oil wouldn't like that very much. Screw you big oil, you are a turd.

Yes! Fuck this individualistic "you should cycle instead of taking the car" language. We need collective investment in mass transit, because not everyone can bike to work, and even less people want to do it in the rain.

I would love to be able to ride trains to get places and not have to drive everywhere.

If we had passenger trains with bike storage, I would never need a car again. We will never see that in America though. We can barely get infrastructure built. We have no national impetus to get it done.

So the tracks are already there they just don't run passenger trains on it?..

It really seems like your phrasing and tone indicate you think your views are incompatible with the thesis of this article, but they aren't

You can start with politicians like Doug Ford in Ontario, Canada. He passed bills letting him rip out fairly new bike lanes from Ontario's largest city's downtown, banning the entire province from building new bike lanes without his approval, and hidden in his bill is legislation that lets him build highways without doing any environmental assessments.

All while Canada is in a economic and housing crisis, a time where bicycles and bike lanes can lower cost of living and support denser housing developments.

Bicycles just aren't suitable for cold places. They only work in places with warm, sunny weather. Like Norway.

The netherlands, a huge cycling country, is also known as a dreary place where it rains more than the sun shines. You just put on a good waterproof outfit and you're good. Cycling heats you up as well, so as long as you have good clothes I would say its doable up to and including freezing temperatures, depending on the road surface.

I live in Denmark and despite wind and horrible weather still we manage to bike everywhere for most of our needs.

Given how popular bikes used to be in Vietnam, which is positively scorching most of the time, I don't think this narrative had any credibility.

Besides, with e-bikes being a thing, this take is even less valid

Just going to point out that it's kind of an unreasonable expectation that people will not be sweaty when it's that hot outside.

Thats why we need EVs...

Electric bikes are a big help on hilly or hot commutes