>>1816666The problem with excluding bike (and pedestrian) infrastructure is that if the source and destination are not bike and foot friendly the effectiveness of train, metro, tram and bus service in increasing mobility while reducing car congestion will be reduced.
If you build high quality transit from a car-dependent location to a car-dependent location, people would rather just drive for convenience. But if the neighbourhood you live in has everything you need within walking or biking distance and the destination has everything you need within walking or biking distance then huge amounts of people will have no problem whatsoever with abandoning their cars.
You are still thinking about it from the perspective of "get these other people out of my way" rather than "get as many people to where they want to go safely and quickly". As long as you have that frame of mind you're not going to solve anything.
In a well designed city, people can live in single family homes or spacious apartments, go to work, do grocery shopping, and do what they want for recreation without a car.
