Comment by robocat

I'm really sorry, my comment was meant to respond to nehal3m (a link to a thesis), not your comment.

I understand that biking can work and there are people that benefit greatly. Having a cargo-bike suggests you are an outlier. I've used biking and bussing as my main mode of transport in the past.

I just prefer we are truthful and admit that it is expensive to put down a bike lane. The paper you linked mentions the expense.

That paper is strongly biased towards cycling - hardly a fair analysis. It notes the same argument as the other paper "Total costs of ownership for a bicycle range between 16 and 28 eurocents per kilometre, while an average passenger car costs easily 32 eurocents per kilometre. Bicycles can play a key role in inclusive mobility policies.".

Comparisons need to be between trips not per km since a bicycle usually cannot fully substitute for a car.

And it is just a true that cars play a key role in inclusive mobility policies; however they don't mention that eh. I had a disabled parent so I do see both sides.