This is an old article, but I bring it up due to the ongoing shenanigans about Albany Street. The predominant argument against it proceeding seems to be the impact on local business due to the loss of parking spaces it will entail.
What I find frustrating is that this has been thoroughly debunked by solid research and well documented experience from around the globe. This article by Dr. Timothy F. Welch (an architecture academic at University of Auckland) lays this out nicely:
The key quote:
Studies from across the globe have found that shop owners consistently overestimate the number of shoppers that arrive by car and vastly underestimate the number of people who arrive by other modes.