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Congratulation to the Bicyclers, mostly students, who called in to the Berkeley City Council to support the bicycle path down Hopkins Street to the shopping center at MLK Jr. Way. The city council voted to complete the bicycle path, so you had a victory. 

Of course, that means that the small businesses on Hopkins will lose parking spaces and have the street in front of their doorways torn up for a while. But that's ok, if they lose too much business and fail because fewer customers can get there, these properties will be available for sale. The Terner Institute at UCB has listed this area as a Property Opportunity, which means that developers can consider it as prime for building high rise market rate housing. 

So shortly you probably will have a lovely bicycle path to a place you will not care to ride to, a cluster of high rise apartment buildings without public amenities. But that's ok, by that time you students will have graduated and moved on; only us long time residents of Berkeley will suffer the consequences. 

But congratulations, you were victorious. There will be another bike path in Berkeley.