PrepTest 153, Section 3, Question 24
All of the one-way streets in the city(42 more words not shown)
If the statements above are(10 more words not shown)
- ABatchelder Avenue is(3 more words not shown)
- BBatchelder Avenue is(4 more words not shown)
- CParking is allowed(3 more words not shown)
- DParking is not(4 more words not shown)
- EParking is not(10 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Every one-way street has a dedicated bike lane. That doesn't mean only one-way streets have them. Another kind of street could have a bike lane too. Keep the rule in the direction we're given.
Now the buses: they don't travel on streets with dedicated bike lanes. That means they can't travel on one-way streets either, because every one-way street has the feature that excludes them. The parking rule also rules out parking wherever there is a dedicated bike lane.
What we’re looking for
Then we learn that bus number nine travels the full length of Batchelder Avenue. So Batchelder can't have a dedicated bike lane. And it can't be one-way: if it were, it would have the lane, and the bus couldn't travel there. For the must-be-true question, that's my prediction—Batchelder is not a one-way street.
Working the answers
- A
This conflicts with the facts. A one-way Batchelder would have a dedicated bike lane, and buses couldn't travel on it. The passage explicitly puts bus number nine on the avenue.
- BCorrect
Follow the two links: the bus rules out a dedicated bike lane, and the lack of that lane rules out a one-way street. B states exactly the conclusion those rules establish. We don't need to add a description of how traffic operates there beyond 'not a one-way street.'
- C
No dedicated bike lane removes one obstacle to parking, but doesn't guarantee parking is allowed. Imagine the avenue has no bike lane but the city still prohibits parking to keep traffic moving. That would obey all the stated rules and make C false.
- D
We can't guarantee the opposite parking rule either. Parking could be allowed on this avenue without violating the requirement that permitted parking occur only on streets without dedicated bike lanes. C and D offer opposing answers to a question the passage leaves open.
- E
A bus might stay off a street simply because its route goes elsewhere. That street could have no dedicated bike lane and allow parking. The passage gives a reason buses must avoid some streets; it doesn't say that every street without bus service has that reason or must prohibit parking.
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