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Originally Posted by curves2000
Bike Lanes: I am not opposed to bike lanes and I think they serve a great purpose when done correctly, it seems in places like downtown and the Beltline it is always at the expense of street parking. Both can co-exist and you don't need bike lanes on both sides of the street like there is on some.
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I'm not sure this is really the case. In the competition for space, something's gotta give. You can take it away from the road or the sidewalk. Most inner city sidewalks are already laughably narrow, so it's the road that needs to yield space (or share it).
When you take it away from cars, it's either travel lanes or parking lanes. Parking spaces can be a mix of full time and part time. When the cycle track was installed, it came at the expense of full time parking stalls, but saw an overall increase of part time stalls (i.e. No parking during rush hour).
The lanes on both sides are basically on the two way streets. 8th Ave and a bit of 9th. The 3rd-4th St SE block on 9th did lose a bit of parking, but that was as much for library access as it was the bike lane, but given that Platform was built, the net gain along 9th Ave went way up for parking. The plan for 14th and 15th Aves is to have a double track on one side of 15th with it being a one-lane one-way street (plus a parking lane) and 14th going back to a two-way street with one travel and one parking on each side.