[Doady]

Big urban area like Detroit not going to be very friendly for cyclists and pedestrians just for being big, and distances being too long Detroit far behind Lansing in that regard, and that stats show it. Reducing distances still important, so much investment and intensification and stopping sprawl still needed in the Detroit area. Transit is the number one competitor to the car in such a large urban area, and getting people onto transit in such as place is the first step toward getting them only the bikes and sidewalks too.

There are some smaller urban areas that have even worse cycling and walking mode share than Detroit. These include Memphis, Kansas City, Fort Wayne, Knoxville, Little Rock, Tulsa, Jackson, Birmingham. These are the much smaller urban areas, so they are the much bigger question marks, so maybe more attention should have been directed at them.

And don't bring weather and topography into this. Hilly places like San Francisco has a lot of cyclists and pedestrians. Same with cold place like Boston and New York. Some of the worst places for cyclists and pedestrians are warm and flat, like Dallas and Oklahoma City.