I've lived in three different cities with bike lanes—Portland, Utrecht, and now Austin—and the difference in how people treat cyclists is stark. Utrecht felt like a normal, human place where biking was just part of life, but here in Austin, a painted stripe on the road doesn't stop drivers from honking or squeezing past you. Copenhagen and Amsterdam get praised for their cycling infrastructure, but maybe the real change isn't the lanes themselves—it's the social acceptance that takes a generation to build. Can we truly export that culture, or does each city need to stumble through the same messy transition on its own?