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It does because you have to have the capacity for cars first, and many cities are already under built for the amount of traffic you have there. You can't just take roads used for cars and convert them to bicycle only lanes in many cases because you will gridlock the entire city in traffic if it isn't gridlocked already you cant haul 30k lbs of food on a bicycle. These roads are like the arteries of civilization. Modern cities can have more then a million people living in them and they all need resources to survive as well as they need to be able to commute to survive.
It's also a compounding problem. The more traffic backs up, the longer it takes to merge and turn, the slower people drive and the more stressed people become so they highly the passing lane and stuff. In a city some places can be a bottleneck where a single bad accident can bring 80% of the traffic to a stop within minutes.
There might be ways to do this stuff but it's not necessarily as easy as just converting roads to bike lanes unless you are in areas that don't have a lot of traffic. Some good solutions are things like requiring that new builds keep a minimum distance from the roadway so that you can easily expand in the future. Building new expressways to relieve pressure on other roads so you can utilize them. NonE of these are quick or easy or cheap.
Grid locking cars is the goal. You want people to say "ugh, I don't want to drive because that'll take all day. I'll go by bicycle instead. It'll be soo much faster"
That might work for a day or two until you realize you don't have any food in the supermarket and nobidy is picking up your garbage and the entire economy just stopped.
Grocery stores can do last mile deliveries with bicycles.
They can't, and also they cant haul thousands of pounds of food there without a truck. Even if you lived in a rural area, growing your own food is incredibly labor intensive. Do you know that before the invention of nitrogen fertilizer, it took about 90% of the people on earth to be farmers, in order to have enough food? The global population never really exceeded a billion people until the 20th century.
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It's not. Just because you don't like something doesn't make it untrue.