Citations needed for... All of this.

I find the densest parts of Amsterdam much less of a "rathole" than parts of LA with similar densities.

The discussion isn't about public transit anyway, it's about bikes. Concern trolling (in a different comment) about the sick and disabled won't get you anywhere. The arithmetic just doesn't work out in your favor.

Also, yes, because the buses and trains in the US mostly suck. You ever been on a nice train?

Besides, no one's suggesting banning single family homes. Though I guess you probably don't like free markets for this sort of thing, want more of a command economy, to make sure nothing besides single family homes gets built, regardless of what the market wants?

Btw, neither a leftist nor European :)

> What is wrong with European leftists spamming HN with anti-car rhetoric on an almost daily basis.

It's all over the internet, and it's taking over our cities.

In my city, they've removed the left turns from so many intersections and turned 4-lane roads into 2-lane roads. They've turned 3-lane one-way corridors into 2-lane roads with blocked turns.

All of this backs up and creates immense traffic. There are barely any cyclists using this bike infrastructure, yet people in vehicles have to wait an additional 15 minutes in these areas of congestion. Delivery vehicles can't park next to buildings anymore. It's the most asinine thing.

This is hundreds of millions of dollars of economic drag so 20-to-40 something yuppies can feel good.

Also, as this infrastructure build out increases, the number of cyclist deaths has been going up massively in my state.

It's ironic, because as a pedestrian, I've been nearly mowed over by cyclists dozens of times. There was one incident years back where one cyclist pushed me over in a busy intersection crosswalk on my way to work. He shouldn't have even been on the sidewalk.