I've lived in a mid-sized city for a decade, and our downtown is mostly parking lots and one-way streets built for cars. Last month, the city council proposed a plan to convert two of those one-way streets into two-way with protected bike lanes, and the backlash was immediate. Local business owners claim they'll lose customers, but studies from other cities show the opposite. I'm genuinely curious whether people think dedicated bike lanes actually help small businesses or just create more traffic headaches.