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Hmm, a 40-80ft wide road that needs to support thousands of pounds of cars, or 8ft of bike path that only needs to support a few hundred pounds of pedestrians/bikers.
I wonder which needs more of a budget.
If everyone is on a bike, 8ft isn't enough...also now you're going to have even bigger cities since most people will need to return to the city from living further out.
This is silly for multiple reasons
Bike paths have significantly higher throughput than roads
This is not a mutually elusive choice, we can have multiple modes of transport
Rail transport & busses are more than capable of helping to reduce the load
I never once said "everyone should be on a bike"
This just makes no sense. The ratio of transportation types has little effect on city density, zoning is way more of a factor. And in addition to that, car centric infrastructure takes up significantly more space than other modes. Reducing car dependence would actually free up space.