WHEELS Wednesdays: A Special Report From LaneLand

Bicycle lanes continue to attract eyes: a University of Massachusetts think-tanker says they create more jobs than other kinds of spending (for building them, or the echo?) Still, lane miles grow. Burbank, Calif., re-did roughly three miles of Verdugo Ave., converting from a four-lane arterial (with parallel parking), to a two-lane, with bike lanes. Here's the master-plan.

LaneLand is still in turmoil, though: The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., reports business owners along that cotton-trading hub's Madison Ave. don't cotton (sorry...) to a "road diet," which shrinks the four-laner to two, for bikes. They object that they started their businesses on a four-laner (and your point is what, exactly, given cars can't all park at the store-front?). TBD....