Just back from a few weeks in London and Lisbon. Some observations that I'll post on relevant threads
Lots of empty unused bike lanes...miles and miles of them.
My daughter lives in the WhiteChapel area beside Tower Hamlets about a 15 min walk from Tower Bridge. She is doing her Masters there and part of it requires fieldwork where she commutes all over London. There is an excellent bus and Tube system there as well as loads of rideshare programs. Her observations on bike lanes are they are rarely used outside of the core Tourist areas ie Westminster, embankment etc. The bike lanes outside of that area are garbage strewn and empty. Even the 'Boris Bikes' are literally rusting in their stands, the ones that arent vandalised have layers of dust and grime on the seats indicating a lack of use. There is a bike highway that is used but not to the same extent as some eu cities
In Lisbon it was similar to London. Except there they have Uber e-scooters to rent. Very popular on Avenida Liberdade to run up a great straight road from the water to their main park. Saw quite a few in use on that road but zero uptake elsewhere. E-bikes were fairly common to see as well as segways. Pretty hilly in the core so outside the tourist route everybody drives or rideshares. Kapten is killing Uber over there. We paid 6 euro to go from the airport to our AirBnB approx 7km away.
Hired a driver for a day to travel outside of the city and he was saying you only see bikes in packs doing distance training....they take their competitive cycling seriously.