> A typical bike rider's coffee and book reading activities do not match a trip to Target and a local restaurant with family in terms of economic impact. ... M

> A typical bike rider's coffee and book reading activities do not match a trip to Target and a local restaurant with family in terms of economic impact. ... Most people going into cities, whether on bikes or cars or trains or buses or the largely fictitious VTOL aircraft from the article, are doing so to _work_, not to buy stuff. "Buying stuff" has been shifting away from city centers for about fifty years, initially via retail parks, then the internet.