^ 60% isn't everyone. But it's a decisive majority despite not being overwhelming. Metro Chicago has around 10 million people, so even if 90% were open to cycling there'd still be a good million who weren't. A million people makes for a lot of potential anecdotes to use as counter examples.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
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