Shrug. I’ve bicycled in snowy weather, heavy rain, heat waves, days without light, and so on. I think there’s absolutely something like a “skill issue” there. I bicycle everyday.

I don’t change clothes either when I bicycle.

And no, fuel costs are pretty much significant in every car. I paid €200 on bicycle maintenance over … 10 years.

If you drive by car you’ll easily pay quadruple that within a year.

And yes, car parking is a problem. It takes up a lot of space. Look at Houston’s 44% space being used by parking spaces and tell me that that’s not a problem. It absolutely is. The parking IS part of the urban sprawl problem.

In fact, I’d go so far as to say that it isn’t a lack of “supporting cars” that creates a problem of parking – it’s the opposite, in fact: it’s the nigh-weaponised dangerous support for cars that creates the problem for people.

Frankly, I think it’s weak if one only ever can drive by car. Walk, bicycle, and use public transit - now that’s real independence.