This is a trashy rant. Has there ever been a single instance in the western hemisphere of improved mass transit and bike access actually hurting local business

This is a trashy rant. Has there ever been a single instance in the western hemisphere of improved mass transit and bike access actually hurting local businesses? It's the "think of the children" equivalent for people who want to drive a lifted pick up truck to the grocery store and are emotionally attached to their ability to do so. Garbage quality editorials like this are the reason I unsubscribed from several newspapers, including the Washington Post. If this is what their editors saw fit to put in the editorial section, I can't help but wonder what the effects of their other editorial decisions have been on the "less opinionated" content in the paper. It's hard to avoid the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, but I can at least try to avoid putting myself right into the middle of it. Intrusive advertisements and surveillance of customers at least can be excused by them desperately trying to make a profit; there's no excuse for this.