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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just so you know.  The owner of Bread Furst himself has said that the location was specifically picked because of parking, visibility and neighborhood household income.  He would be the absolute last person to want to make Connecticut a one lane road without parking.[/quote]

I can't speak for the owner of  Bread Furst, but many business owners are in favor of traffic calming. They know that a lot of their business comes from people who arrive on foot, and they don't enjoy risking their own lives getting to work.  [/quote]

Oh please do share the names of these businesses that are clamoring for narrower streets, no parking and physical impediments.[/quote]

Business owners hate it when it’s easy for people to come to their stores[/quote]

Totally.  I just dug up this really interesting research from NYC that is strong support for traffic calming being very good for local business.

https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/dot-economic-benefits-of-sustainable-streets.pdf

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This is a straw man. The issue is not how calm the traffic is, the issue is whether the traffic can stop and spend. TaKe away parking and take away curbside access (hello bike lane) and those businesses will fail. [/quote]

did you read the study? it shows the opposite. in a city not everyone arrives by car. even if they did how would a handful of street parking spots for all the businesses on the block be sufficient? [/quote]

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