> As each generation grows up more and more ingrained with the use of a car the likelihood of this happening decreases.

I doubt it.

> Traffic counts suggest that the number of miles cycled in 2017 – 3.27 billion – is around 29% above the figure for 1997.

> Cycle use increases have been higher in some urban areas: in London, for example, around 27,000 people cycled across the central London by cycle in 1977 (both directions), compared to 184,000 in 2016 – almost seven times as many.