Walking in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

The problem is all the transit in the world doesn't fix broken land use patterns.

Bike lanes on the other hand can fix broken land use patterns .

Maybe yes -- but only for people who use bicycles. Everyone is potentially able to use transit. Most people can also walk. Bicycling reduces the potential population (less so in Amsterdam, much more so here).

Transit does not work for everyone, no more than cycling does. Almost everyone can ride a bike, and if not a traditional bicycle, any one of many types of accessibility bicycles, like trikes, hand cycles, even bicycle adapters for wheelchairs, or even the things you find in the netherlands, that look like tiny cars.  There are a small number of people who cannot ride bikes at all, and that's fine, transit also doesn't work for everyone.

But transit does not work for everyone either. The fact is, if a service isn't fast and convenient, it isn't a real option.  People who live in anti-transit suburbs will never have a realistic transit option. These things aren't black and white.

Having cycling as an option provides realistic transportation options to more people than just transit.

This isn't controversial.