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lol yeah I want to bike to the grocery store in December in Chicago, come on.

You might be interested in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URMQ0d286hY .

Oulu is at least as cold as Chicago and has twice as much snowfall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulu#Climate vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago#Climate . I'm not saying that _you_ would wish to cycle in December but making it practicable for many is a choice, as Oulu shows.

That city has a tiny fraction of the population density, commercial activity, and industrial transport of Chicago, they're really not comparable. Transporting people and goods over large distances by bicycle doesn't scale very well.

So now a city is too dense for cycling to work? It’s usually the other way around.

Either way, cars are inherently less space efficient than bikes, because they occupy so much more road space per passenger.

throwaway5959 mentioned travelling to their grocery store. I'm going to guess that their grocery store is not on the other side of Chicago from where they live. How big the city is that contains the grocery store doesn't seem directly relevant to that or does it ?

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