That last group is basically a PSYOP by anti-infrastructure US libertarian from the '70s. Forget his name, but it's bullshit idea and doesn't work by design.
Forester was a suburbanite, with no interest in getting more people on bikes. For him, cycling was a “minority activity and I didn’t expect it to be any more than that because I knew the difficulty. It was real fun, but on the other hand it had its costs, time and social opprobrium and such.”
This elitism put Forester, and some of the other hardcore VCers, at loggerheads with those who wanted to see more “bums on saddles,” such as the bicycle industry and most bicycle advocates.
Former transportation planner and bicycle historian Bruce Epperson calls this parting of the ways “the Great Schism,” and it’s still very much alive, with cycleways proponents saying the only way to grow cycling is to provide separated cycleways, and some right-to-the-roaders being opposed to any and all supposedly sidelining cycle infrastructure.
Further talk on helmets and cycling on the road with cars being used to avoid infrastructure, for bicycles, etc.
That last group is basically a PSYOP by anti-infrastructure US libertarian from the '70s. Forget his name, but it's bullshit idea and doesn't work by design.
Weird makes sense, but had no idea roots were that deep
Found it. It was John Forrester.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/04/23/death-of-a-dinosaur-anti-cycleway-campaigner-john-forester-dies-aged-90/
Further talk on helmets and cycling on the road with cars being used to avoid infrastructure, for bicycles, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhzH6mEpIps