I still don't get why people need to (or are allowed to) ride bikes on the State Street Promenade . Are they shopping or stopping to eat at restaurants? No. I've observed that at least two-thirds of the riders are on e-bikes and that their rate of speed shows they have no interest in patronizing any State Street businesses.
Then there are the kids and older show-offs who hang out on their bikes as a social scene. That's not terrible but it still creates a hazard for pedestrians and shoppers.
It's bad enough that State Street appears as shabby as it does with dozens of vacant stores and homeless camped-out in doorways. There never seems to be any cops around when a drunk/crazed person is acting out on the street. State Street now feels pretty lawless and third world to me. But I hope some kind of interesting character will emerge on that street without becoming a plastic Universal Studios kind of place.