Bikes! Bikes! and Trikes! Also, with electric bikes, which now make longer commutes possible, I say, bikes!<p>Let&#x27;s look at one possible way in which bikes could be a path forward.<p>Replace 9 out of 10 miles of road currently utilized by motorized ground transit with lanes split half for pedestrians, half for bikes, with two directions of bike lanes being nested inside the two pedestrian walkways.<p>Ped Walkway =============<p>Bike Lane       &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<p>Bike Lane      &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;<p>Ped Walkway =============<p>Both walking and biking are orders of magnitude lighter and the infrastructure outlay and maintenance costs will be orders of magnitude lower. Additionally, as a city evolves, it doesn&#x27;t require massive planning and public work projects to introduce new routes&#x2F;lines or modify existing ones. You simply take a left instead of a right. Because, bikes are cooler than trains like that. You can choose which way you turn. The remaining 1 out of 10 miles could be utilized for hub style (think how airlines organize their routes) public transit (busses, trains, etc.) routes. This is just one proposal. I’m sure there are other ways to make bikes a bigger part of our commute infrastructure.<p>Pollution; down. Car wrecks; down. Public health; up. Cost of living; improved. Community; improved.<p>If you&#x27;ve never been to &quot;Bike Party&quot; and your city has one, I implore you to go. The sense of community is astounding. Riding with a group of cars has never been so social, and never will, because you&#x27;re enclosing yourself in this box and cutting off most contact with anything outside that box.<p>Also, as someone that lived and worked in Manhattan for 5 years and is now a daily bike commuter in Baltimore, it&#x27;s my opinion that riding a bike is fun, elegant, exciting, but riding the subway, most of the time, is just not humane. It&#x27;s just, not fun, most of the time stressful, sometime it’s running on time but almost never on  your schedule, and sometimes it’s an absolute nightmare.
But, riding a bike, most of the time, it&#x27;s an absolute pleasure.