Where are people supposed to park their cars? Streets need parking spots or the streets are sort of pointless. Parking garages are too expensive for some people and in addition why should the parking garages have a monopoly on parking spaces? And with no on-street parking the cost of garages would sky rocket with demand, as if they weren't expensive enough already.

I'm not anti-bike lane but people who want to ride bikes here are a fantastically small anomaly of the city and dedicating so much space to them is absurd. Even people that don't own cars use on-street parking when we have to rent a car or have friends and family coming into town that for many reasons can't take public transit.

Build bike lanes on the main crossing streets and every other avenue and that seems like a fair compromise. If you don't feel safe riding your bike in the street when you have to, then leave the bike lane then walk your bike on the sidewalk.