This is a coastal city at a fairly run-of-the-mill latitude, people build functional bike networks in much worse.
There needs to be an entire wholesale change in both infrastructure and culture to make bike-commuting workable in most extant cities.
Relatively speaking, the infrastructure is the easy part.
I think we'll get to the heat death of the universe before bike-commuting in Houston, Texas would ever be "a thing".
This is a coastal city at a fairly run-of-the-mill latitude, people build functional bike networks in much worse.