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Great, and those places service maybe 10 percent of the United States.
This is about educating people so we can help fix this issues. No one is saying our system of car focused infrastructure isn't there and fucked up. They're saying car infrastructure costs significant amount of tax money (which you're paying invisibly) and have a large cost associated with them. Bikes are relatively cheap, and their infrastructure is much cheaper, and the same is true for public transport.
Yeah, our society is dominated by car interests. Part of the problem is when anyone recommends a solution that isn't cars people complain saying "this doesn't work in this situation" and we never improve. Just agree it would be great and it sucks it isn't better. You don't have to always say it doesn't work in a lot of places. We are all very aware.