Americans are so violently carbrained and oppose any form of infrastructure not just because they dislike bikers, but because for the average fat american, it's, for all practical purposes, IMPOSSIBLE to use bikes as transit
>too fat to reliably fit on a bike
>would pedal too slow to get anywhere
>even just walking exhausts them, let alone cycling

The idea of "cycling" being anything other than an exercise done on a stationary bike in a gym is unthinkable to them because anything else is physically impossible for them