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Instead of treating bicycles as motor vehicles, we (local governments, advocates, citizens, engineers, planners, parents, and children) should focus on creating an environment that makes cycling a viable choice for everyone. Culture change. Aggressive traffic calming measures combined with protected bike lanes and shared-use paths will make a world of difference. It’s practical and achievable. John Forester died in 2020, and his legacy for cycling advocacy is that children, older adults, and middle-aged normies don't exist. Vehicular cycling is for the athletic adrenaline junkies, an impressive group of people to be sure, but that's not most of us. Forester’s ideas about bicycle infrastructure are so easy to ridicule, and based on his reputation, an on-stage debate would've been a riot. Even when he was young, he was a cranky old man. Oh well, he's gone, so we'll just have to settle for mocking him post mortem.