Originally Posted by
holytrousers
it deploys a solid foundation, though, for enacting further measures, such as those you mentioned.
No, requiring the manufacture of bikes that won't be used is
absurdly wasteful, and so counterproductive from a climate perspective. You remember all the pictures of mountains of trashed share bikes in China? Actually going through with this would be the same, only instead of mountains in one place they'd be cluttering up and rusting away in hallways and yards and alleys and ravines all over the country.
Requiring bike ownership on the part of an entire population is
just stupidly counterproductive.
Making bike and transit ridership
more attractive than driving is what actually works - and you don't have to
mandate bike ownership to do that, you just have to
make driving expensive to a degree consistent with its climate cost, buildout and subsidize public transit, make road conditions cycling friendly, and make solid basic bikes inexpensive to acquire.
Mandating bike ownership is the sort of stupidity that only looks good to
someone who wants to appear to be doing something, while
not impacting the lifestyle of their wealthy supporters, pushing the cost onto others, and not caring that they are wasting the very sorts of material and energy resources that are at issue in climate and environmental concerns.