Pretty sure it's hard to spend equal amount used on car infrastructure on bike infrastructure, they might need to overengineer to make bike infrastructure as expensive.
Its really really hard when car infrastructure directly undermines it.
There's a really big, new, expensive bridge near me, only for bikes and pedestrians, but nobody uses it. Its because its a fucking pain in the ass to get to with a bike or on foot. Every piece of bike and pedestrian infrastructure has a car shaped obstacle in front of it.
I'd love to walk or bike but I hate stopping at intersections every couple fucking minutes and each one is 3-5 minutes of waiting since I live near a busy road. One time I had to wait 15 fucking minutes. I began timing it with my phone since I was getting so frustrated and that one instance made me stop walking and biking to places. I know its best to walk etc, but where I live, its a huge waste of time
I work only a mile away, I myself can walk a mile in 15 minutes easily. Walking to work in practice takes 30-40 minutes because I'm stuck fucking waiting for most of it. Driving to work takes less than 5 minutes.
Ok, fine, I'll agree to a careless society once my city has a decent transit system, not this pathetic shit we have. You bike people really hate the elderly and handicapped people, you literally don't care about anyone who can't physically ride a bike. But anyways, a careless society is a stupid, childish fantasy
The thing about cities like Amsterdam is that bikes aren't dominant, they coexist with everything else. I recently had the opportunity to drive a car there and it's honestly great, because bike traffic is separated. Unlike back home where bike lanes are attached like a cancer to the road and you constantly have to fear those suicidal maniacs dropping in front of you. But that's only because they have nowhere else to go, in Amsterdam they do and so the only time you have to worry about them is on a left turn out of a tight parking street, AKA once a trip MAX.