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And yet the shop owners will see this and then decide to just reject reality and still complain anyway about all those imaginary cars constantly stopping by to buy something.
Funnily enough, the closing of the roads has happened enough and is accepted enough that they can't really argue that in montreal anymore.
Now they argue that it's bad because it drives up shop rents on streets because demand to start stores on those roads go up 🤦.
That sounds straightforward enough to fix, close a few more roads.
Has to come with a plan for how people in cars get closer, but those options can be pretty terrible and still be way better than trying to drive downtown streets while trying to sort out where the hell you need to park.
I can't imagine anyone wants to actually drive a car in a big downtown area, it takes forever and you end up walking a long way anyway.
The borough this street is in and the other ones around are completely covered in bike lanes (and bikeshare stations!), the metro has multiple stations not too far with bus connections to the street next to this one. So i wouldn't say anyone needs to take the car there.
Oh, also, these pictures aren't from the downtown, they're from a residential area, so the shopping streets are surrounded by quiet residential streets, so even if all the shopping streets like this were closed to cars you could still get around/near the streets by car pretty well.
I definitely agree trying to drive in areas like these kinda sucks anyways, It's just not worth it.
TLDR: I agree with you
edit: as an example, I took this pic on a walk yesterday.
Small business owners are not much brighter than gen pop, they LARP whatever local chamber tells them to and chamber of commerce is not pro small business, they just use them as useful idiots.