Where does it all lead?

Sometimes we all get so caught up in the here-and-now that we forget the grand purpose of what we're doing. What's the point of all this? What will these bicycle and pedestrian improvements achieve? Why don't I receive immediate gratification and increased from laying down some markings on a street?

I think this video does a pretty great job of showing us where good planning and effort can take a city:

Copenhagen - City of Cyclists from Colville Andersen on Vimeo.

According to the artist "It took forty years of incremental improvements for the city to attain that level* of bike ridership." *That level is half a million Copenhageners.

Found on Streetsblog.