The Battle over Bike Lanes Needs a Mindset Shift

I found this a very interesting observation:

> And there’s a negativity bias. “People who have trouble finding parking always talk about it,” Grabar notes. “But people who just walk right in—or bike in—will not talk about it.” So storeowners will understandably build up a sense of parking as an out-of-control problem, while the uptick in pedestrians or cyclists may not register.

I’ll never forget going to a community meeting about the design of a fully protected bike lane on Valencia St in San Francisco and one of the major opponents was there…Who you might ask? The owner of Valencia Cyclery! He was so convinced he would lose business that we was willing to alienate cyclists in SF where he is selling and servicing.