State College business manager John Hanna looked through his store's glass window and smiled at what he saw -- parking meters.

"They got them up quick," said Hanna, who is the manager of Continental Real Estate Management.

It's been two days since the State College Borough Council approved a controversial bike route through State College, and business owners and bikers are already speaking out.

The plan brings back metered parking on the 100 block of Foster Avenue and creates a "share the road" bicycle lane on the 300 block of South Allen Street.

For business owners like Hanna, the measure creates parking in overcrowded downtown State College.

But some bikers said they wish borough council had approved a plan that put a lane strictly for bicycle riders on the 300 block of Allen Street.

"There's always a wild driver that freaks me out," Dragana Nikolic (graduate-architectural engineering) said. "It's hard when you're riding your bike in the middle of the street and someone with their car will almost run you over."

Nikolic said without a bike route, bikers will be forced to either ride on the busy roads or on sidewalks.

She said she uses her bike to get around town and campus and thinks adding a few more parking meters isn't the right thing to do.

"That doesn't make much sense," Nikolic said.

Hanna sees it differently. The parking spots near his business were taken away two years ago to make way for a then-proposed bike path. The new plan gives his customers a closer place to park.

"I was not happy at all when they took them down," Hanna said. "Bike routes are fine, but it has to be practical."

He said he and other downtown business owners spoke up a few weeks ago at a borough council meeting to voice their concerns. And State College Borough Council President Elizabeth Goreham said their concerns were heard.

"The people who were inconvenienced were more vocal," said Goreham, who hoped to see more accommodations for bikers.

Goreham, who is also the Democratic candidate for State College mayor, said she hopes bikers will also speak up. She bikes around town, and thinks taking away bike paths will set bad precedent.

"People who don't ride bikes don't realize how awful it is to be always looking out for a car door," she said. "Bicyclists are sort of invisible in this town to people who don't bike."