While I want to agree because I myself like biking, I like jogging. This doesn't make sense.
I know so many people who live in Edmonton and area like people that drive in from Sherwood Park to downtown Edmonton to work their software job, or come from Morinville. Or even from like new developments like Ellerslie to downtown or north side and their job is at a facility south east edmonton.
None of these people are going to be able to bike that distance. These are 20 minute drives and I know exceptionally few people who would be willing to do the potential 40+ minute bike ride to get there. Again that's considering in city stuff, coming from Sherwood Park I could not even imagine it.
This just feels so privileged and so myopic and ignoring that a lot of people who work in Edmonton don't live near their place of work.*
But we're again presuming people want to bike in our weather, 4 months out of the year sure I can see it. The others? People don't love the cold, people don't enjoy bundling up, people won't want to bike on dangerous icey freeze-thaw-freeze-thaw lanes in spring/summer. Our roads during that time period are bad enough indicators. Now imagine being on 2 wheels on a bike on those, absolutely out of the question for the MASSIVE majority of people. That's also ignoring that most people just want to get to work, spend their energy at work, and then get home. I don't know what sort of low energy consuming easy jobs people have where they are okay burning that much energy-- can I have their jobs? Please? Because by the time I get off work after a sometimes 14 hour day during crunch I want TO BE HOME I don't have energy and I'm ready to die.
*I will never say urban sprawl is a bad thing because that's what allows people to afford homes. I completely disagree with the notion that it's somehow bad to want to raise a family in a house rather than an apartment in a frankly DANGEROUS downtown core. I've had to go to work daily in this downtown core and it feels so much more dangerous than when the pandemic started. It's DISGUSTING.