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Old Posted Mar 29, 2012, 4:10 PM
markbarbera markbarbera is offline
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Originally Posted by CaptainKirk View Post
Holy smokes! Honestly, did you even read his post?

He never said business input is "undue influence" and no where did he dismiss there concerns.
Holy smokes, did you even read it?

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Originally Posted by ryan_mcgreal View Post

Business owners will be affected marginally if at all by the loss of one lane during rush-hour on a street with vastly excessive lane capacity, and their concerns are mainly parochial. They should not be allowed to unduly influence the city's reasonable efforts to meet the demand for better transit.
I will concede the incorrect logic leap on my part vis-a-vis bus lanes' impact on overcrowding, but the dismissal of business owners' concerns is pretty overt.

I highlighted the term "unduly influence" in the paragraph that dismisses their concerns so you don't miss it this time.
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