Honestly, I wonder if the best solution is just no bike lane at all. The thing I hated about the old lane was the need to constantly move in and out of the lane

Honestly, I wonder if the best solution is just no bike lane at all. The thing I hated about the old lane was the need to constantly move in and out of the lane to avoid parked cars which felt more unsafe than just riding with traffic (which can't go fast on Valencia anyway due to the light timing). The idea though that Amado's closing was specifically due to the bike lane seems hard to believe unless the business was already extremely marginal (I believe the bike lane might have been the straw that broke the camel's back but it feels like a scapegoat for other issues).