Area Tenant: Economist Patrick Hutber is most famous for his suggestio

The passage plays around the following idea: if someone tries to speak about any kind of improvements - this chap most likely wants to conceal some kind of deterioration, that things got worse in fact.

Example: an official boasts that the city has put into operation a new kindergarden for 100 children, but he does not mention that 5 old kindergardens have been destroyed that used to give day care to 1000 children. So this false to the core official just speaks about some "improvement" to conceal degradation.

Getting engaged with the stimuli: we understand that 2 new bike lanes were introduced to the community, ok, it is a good thing to have separate bike lanes. then we see there is some ticketing system that should work closely with the bike lanes, i am not sure what it is for. may be residents have to pay for the right to use bike lanes. ok. sounds reasonable. one should pay for goodies.

but why the tenant strongly beleives the neighborhood representative is distorting facts? i.e. tries to conceal degradation with so to say an "improvement"? he is unhappy with bike lanes? or with vigorous ticketing? So we need to find an answer which would prove that the tenant is right that there is some deterioration taking place and being concealed by nasty representative. the deterioration has to be on the side of bike lanes: they are not built to standards and only endanger citizens to road accidents, they made the situation worse for some reason and it would have been better without them etc. or on the side of ticketing. most likely here. because the tetnat emotionally mentions vigorous ticketing.

(A): The ticketing to which the neighborhood was subject over the past twelve months is unprecedented in the neighborhood’s history.this should be the answer by POE. the most relevant asnwer. the community might have a ticketing system before the 2 new lanes or might not have the one. but we know for sure that vigorous and unprecedented speak in a negative tone. so this means that ticketing system has worsened the situation

(B): The neighborhood representative has privately remarked that the bike lanes are unimpressive and unlikely to be frequented by the neighborhood’s residents. trap answer. even it is true and they are not impressive - THIS DOES NOT DETERIORATE THE SITUATION, they can be laid say outside the city in the hills where noone cares to bike - does this deteriorate situation for the community which has never had any bike lanes at all. no.

(C) Despite the unconscionable and widespread ticketing to which it is subject, the neighborhood is currently one of the most desirable in the city.it says ticketing is bad but people love the place just the same. there is no deterioration at all. it weakens

(D) The neighborhood’s quality of life, as measured by accurate and respected surveys of local residents, has been stagnant for well over a decade. attack the surveys! i or anyone else can make a better survey and come to opposite results

(E) The tenant is the most politically informed of the neighborhood’s residents. how does this help to reveal deterioration witht he bike lane system?