We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

Bicycles are only used by the smelly POOR people, and POOR people don't buy stuff! No to the bike lane! The solution is more highways, more parking, more cars for the RICH people!

...hey hey wait why are you car drivers driving to the massive shopping centers, you were supposed to stop by my tiny shop with nothing interesting around it! I have PARKING! Come back! Buy my shit! Help!

As a society we should start taking the right wing messaging further to hurt the people initially spreading the messaging.

In this example, looking at that picture:

"People should boycott the business because they don't provide parking! Those assholes don't need my business!"

No you see with cars the drug dealers get stuck in traffic, therefore they can't deliver as many drugs per day, thus reducing the incidence of drug usage.

(/s if it's not obvious)

No, they're not. There's plenty of new bicycle infrastructure planned here.

Criminals are famously environmentally conscious, and never have any spare cash for a pricy car as a mode of transport. Of course.

They can't now, they'll get a ticket.

Oil and petrol companies are some of the richest and most politically connected industries in the world. Each person who rides a bike is a person who does not spend money on fueling a car.

I just assume that Exxon/BP/et al have thrown blanket bribes at every politician in every country to be generally against bike lanes for whatever reason they can pull out of their ass, so long as they don't come right out and say "BP has paid me directly to decry bike lanes".

There's a contingent of very vocal minicab drivers and tradesmen that constantly complain about sharing the road.

This kind of being a dick to cyclists plays well with them.

Having spent tens of thousands of pounds on their cars, people hate seeing someone on a £50 bike going faster than them. Basically poor people should never have an advantage.

or is some kind of schizoid aesthetic rejection where they just want bike-riding sissies to stop being a thing?

I am slightly depressed at how much it looks exactly like this.

Only thing I'd say is shopkeeps have a point about their footfall being affected by the lack of parking outside their shops now. Literally every other way to address that, besides nuking the site from orbit (the only way to be sure), is a better way to address that than just tearing up the bike lane.

Its possible that the local businesses have lost business because terminally lazy people can no longer park directly outside their shops and will not walk a short distance to them, this should be extremely easy for the business to prove if its actually true, I have my doubts its a significant amount. I suspect the people most inconvenienced by not being able to park outside the businesses are those that actually work there. This is the only remotely serious suggestion I see from the anti bike lane crowd in this instance.

My local village center is meant to be no parking on the high street, has had times its been enforced properly and times its been ignored due to pressure by local businesses. Recently they started enforcing it, directing people to the free (under two hours) car parks on the edge of the high street. Car parks were full with people who own and work in the shops, so they prevented them from parking in the car parks all day, so now they park on the residential streets off the high street enforcement area.

Um, this is almost definitely the primary reason:

Local business owners welcome decision to rip out “absolute disaster” cycle lane which led to “lots of customers” getting parking tickets

Heaven forbid you be unable to park on the pavement!

Terrorist vegan drug-dealing bicyclists

Heck, let's even make it fair and compare them on the basis of units of mass transported per unit of distance traveled. I'm sure car still wins (in the negative sense, as per usual).

I think what he's saying is that drug dealers are using the bike lane because it's faster and more convenient than using a car

No license and registration. Can ditch the vehicle and everything. Sounds perfect to me

finally, someone made it make sense.

Apparently one that's now out of business atleast if the for lease signs are anything to go buy