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This has been shown in studies over and over, but seemingly most businesses thinks their situation is somehow special and actively lobby against their best interest. Even 5th Ave in Manhattan, one of the busiest pedestrian areas in the US has had street improvements indefinitely delayed because businesses are fighting to defend the vehicle lanes.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/04/08/city-dot-still-mum-on...

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It depends on the location. Here's a business owner whose situation really is special:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/300528260/roa...

But even so, the business owners losing business shouldn't matter at all for such decisions. Business only exist to serve their customers. If customers don't want or need them, then they should disappear. The real concern is whether customers do still want shops there but are unable to access them because of lack of parking.

That article is about Shannon, a town of 1500 people on a state highway. There is a detour in place causing it to be entirely skipped by most drivers.

It bears no resemblance car usage in cities at all.

Yes. That's why it depends on the location. Cities with mostly high-rise apartment buildings will be different to single family home suburbs. You can't just take some research and assume it applies to any specific other case.

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