Originally Posted by sggoodri

Our city is trying to revitalize and expand commercial development in our downtown, the only area with any significant combination of motor traffic and on-street parking. The business owners located in older, pre-automobile storefronts depend on convenient on-street parking in front of their shops in order to stay in business. Making patrons walk a few blocks will just send them out to the strip malls where parking is easier. Building off-street parking in parking decks, the only viable solution without reducing downtown density, will cost on the order $10,000 per parking space.

There have been no overtaking-type car-bike collisions reported on these downtown streets with on-street parking. The annoyance to motorists delayed by cyclists plus the annoyance to cyclists by motorists honking is less than the annoyance to motorists who face losing the parking. And cyclist advocates here don't want to needlessly damage the commercial viability of downtown. Therefore, the parking will stay.