Comment by barnabee

It varies massively from place to place.

Where I live in London, and in many other cities, cycling to get around is massively popular and growing fast.

But other towns and cities are much more like you describe.

Anecdotally this seems like somewhat of a demographic thing and places that skew younger, university educated[/ing], and dare I say left wing tend toward much higher rates of cycling vs other forms of transport.