Comment by cyberax

> Is there anything about kids in particular that makes them unable to walk and/or bike?

Time and inconvenience if you're not using a car. It more-or-less requires a full-time commitment from at least one parent. That's why you see a sharp drop in large families in cities.

> The really young kids go into strollers and bike/cargo bike seats.

Try that with 2 or 3 children.

> Yeah a bike path that's not connected to a bike path network is of zero use. But then Rome wasn't built in a day was it?

It is connected. We literally buried about 200 million dollars into building a bike network that spans the city. It sits unused, not even replacing the traffic that it displaced. The percentage of bike commutes is around 2-5% depending on the survey, almost identical to 10 years ago.

But the good news is that our downtown is now full of shuttered storefronts, with most commercial blocks having at least one available for lease.