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Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social |
I've become convinced that one of the biggest obstacles to better road design in commercial areas is well-off business owners who drive their BMW to work every day and find it impossible to imagine a customer who uses any other mode of conveyance to arrive at the shop.
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Logical Frank
@logicalfrank.com
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Whenever you want to put in a bike lane, it's important to do eighteen months of community outreach to find these guys who drive to their businesses from the suburbs and let them have input.
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TommyBenBergman
@tbapple.bsky.social
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That is the entire origin story of the NYC metro area under the influence of Robert Moses. Riding around with his driver wishing roads were “parkways”. Never rode mass transit never even drove himself, had an in car office, so even disconnected from the impact of bad traffic.
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Kiva: Scread na Reilige
@furyohfury.bsky.social
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Speaking of that type of person: I worked as an admin at a nonprofit and the COO drove a BMW. He requires the company to rent *two spaces* in downtown Minneapolis so his dumbass car could have extra room.
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@beefbacon.bsky.social
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Years back, business owners killed bike lanes on a stretch of bars/shops/restaurants in NE PDX cause ‘parking’ (maybe 40 spots?). Then during COVID, city shut down 2 adjacent blocks and there’s easily 100 people there every day who came on bike/transit/walking
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Cyneheard
@cyneheard.bsky.social
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"If the bus stop replaces two parking spots, how will my customers get here?"
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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[Zizek voice] Itsh pure ideology
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this is ryan
@thisryan.bsky.social
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They also assume their customers are repulsed by visible homelessness and love cops.
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Silly Sausage
@appallnepal.bsky.social
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We are finding this exact thing in trying to convert an ugly, small, impossible-to-use carpark in an otherwise lovely and heavily used high street, into a town square. The shoppers - love the idea. It would actively encourage them to come out more. Shop owners - it’s Armageddon.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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yep
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@pouncingbullfrog.bsky.social
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A lo of the time the parking they defend so hard is the specific space they use, not the customer's
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Nick S
@holgate.permanent.red
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There are a bunch of studies on this — the Graz study in Austria was the first — and business owners vastly overestimate how far their customers travel and the number who use cars.
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gdeck
@geedeck.bsky.social
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This Literally-Literally happened in Columbus as the owner of Studio 35 (think wanna be alamo draft) railroaded a real bike lane from happening in central Columbus bc of his 6 parking spots
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Stephen Boisvert
@srboisvert.bsky.social
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I don't even think they are imagining customers using the same mode. They are only thinking about their own parking options and are using hypothetical customers as rhetorical cover for what is simply their own desire.
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@jamesschuyler.bsky.social
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But they say it's about the customers not being able to reach them.
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BFR
@bfr74.bsky.social
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“Windshield bias” is the term, right?
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