Article: Personal Privilege and Biking: It Takes More than a Bike Lane to Start Riding

Barb Chamberlain argues that while access to quality cycling infrastructure is necessary to facilitate cycling for transport, there are a lot of hidden factors that make it far easier for the "privileged" including: education, health, wealth, living in a safe neighbourhood with good access, fitting into the dominant social strata, having access to fallbacks (transit, a car), being able to fit work around biking, etc. Cycling policies and programs can only affect these equity issues at the margins but the more consequential issues do explain much of the variations in cycling rates.

Link: Washington Bikes: Personal Privilege and Biking: It Takes More than a Bike Lane to Start Riding