Step one: join local bike coalition.
Step two: become a single-iseue voter and only vote for their endorsements.
Only half joking here.
It's not perfect in my city, but it is getting better, which is awesome to see
in the past 7 or so years that I've lived here it has gotten way way better. The pandemic helped a ton (slow streets implemented in a really great way among other things).
I'm guessing it's because the developers either have a different speciality that they focus on, are employed to support specific hardware, or both.