This sounds like the script for a Jehovah’s Witnesses induction session. Jesting aside, it’s a decent plan.
And this assumes that Matrix and its mobile client (I forget its name) are ready for the big time. Not sure if that’s true. The UX and reliability have to be flawless before Matrix can be recommended to normies. If not then the experiment will end badly for everyone including Matrix and the cause of software freedom. That’s my view.
Hybrids: irrelevant and complex red herring that’s already on the way out. E-bikes: sure. But electric scooters will be the real salvation IMO. It’s a drop-in replacement which is actually cheaper and simpler. Path already blazed by China. The end of the abominable combustion scooter is now just a matter of time.
Why life is just harder for single people, encapsulated inadvertently in a comment.
This is classic advice from an enlightened Westerner and I do agree in theory. Unfortunately there is no example of a cycling-first poor country turning directly into a cycling-first rich country.
In my experience having seen the urban dystopia of many of these places, every country feels the need to pass through the materialist car-owning stage of economic development before it can move on to the post-materialist stage of development where people are more concerned about things like the environment and wellbeing. It really is something to do with the novelty of material wealth, I think. People want the small car, the status symbol of material success is literally more important than anything else. Monster traffic jams are worth it, and they can sort-of be fixed, for a while anyway, by new monster roads.
India is at this stage right now. Alongside a few metros here and there, India is also building exactly the kind of monstrous urban freeways that are now being pulled down in Europe and the USA. It seems every country needs to learn the same hard lesson by itself.
That’s understandable. It’s also, in microcosm, the reason your country is so divided. If you want to continue living in a democracy, you’re all going to have to talk - and listen - to each other.
Solved problem. It’s 42. Next.