Business owners along 101 Street in Edmonton’s downtown are calling out a city plan to create a dedicated transit lane in front of their businesses — feeling the city isn’t listening to their concerns.

Richard Liukko runs Freecloud Records in downtown Edmonton. He’s one of several business owners in the area calling out city plans to turn this lane into a dedicated transit lane by the end of this year, removing street parking during daytime hours during weekdays.

“The main problem is, all the parking in this area is private. So there’s not really any public place to park, and one of the recommendations was for people to park in the neighbourhood to the west, and we don’t feel having commercial traffic parking in residential areas is right,” said Liukko.

Liukko says he and other business

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