boomers are peak oil consoomers

there's a boomer tho that goes around like forcing everyone to understand that the roads are also built for us to walk on, with his 2 mules: https://3mules.com/

yeah probably a realistic compromise is your idea of making sidewalks into asphalt for like "anything that isn't a giant gas guzzling SUV" (walk, bike, etc.)

there are some problems but it's probably the best compromise - a lot of cars in driveways don't look so you can't really bike that well on sidewalks where there are car driveways

it's actually illegal to bike on sidewalks in a lot of places as they're for walking... so without bike lanes then bikes are supposed to take over the street (which a lot of anti-cyclist "vroomers" don't like) - in practice it's probably safest in some places for cyclists to just take over sidewalks (or also definitely to take side streets when possible)

although tbh also there are probably a lot of boomers who love to ebike since they have the $ to buy the bikes and it gives just that little backup if they run out of energy (I've seen that ebikes are popular with a lot of older people)... so I'm not sure if some of the boomers are out of touch with young people and other boomers who might be supportive of "bike lanes"

edit: says online majority of ebike owners are 55+