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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A driver, bicyclist and pedestrian walk into a bakery. The baker brings them a plate of 12 cookies. The driver quickly snatches up 11 cookies, turns to the pedestrian and says, “Watch out! The bicyclist is going to steal your cookie!”[/quote]

The bakery closed because there was nowhere to park.  Now no one gets a cookie.  [/quote]

2/3 of the bakery's customers arrive on foot or by bike. Why would it close due to lack of car parking?[/quote]

66/100 arrive by foot and 1/100 arrives by bike. Your statement is still true. But the bakery lost 33/100 so it had to close. [/quote]

Every study, everywhere, has shown that bike lanes benefit businesses. [/quote]

Bike lanes make it harder for people to circulate throughout a city. Hard to see how that would ever be good for a business. [/quote]

How so? I see cities all over the world with bike lanes and people are able to circulate those cities without issue. Why would it be different here?[/quote]

Obviously, you're completely wrong. Do you think that if we took traffic lanes away from cars and said only people who travel via roller skates can use them -- do you think that would increase or decrease the flow of people? It would be fantastic for the three Washingtonians who are really into roller skates but it would be a nightmare for the half million people who drive every day. [/quote]

If only someone had thought to dig some tunnels under the streets of DC and run trains in them that come in from all of the suburbs.[/quote]

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