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Larkspur's transportation department launched a small bike-share pilot last year, placing forty bicycles at five downtown stations. **The city should now expand the program to every major neighborhood.** Skeptics note that bicycles serve only able-bodied riders and that winters in Larkspur are harsh. But the pilot's results speak for themselves: **during the six months after the stations opened, weekday car trips into the downtown core fell by nine percent**, even though gasoline prices declined over the same period. A modest investment in additional stations would extend these benefits across the whole city, and the program's sponsorship revenue already covers most of its maintenance costs.

In the argument above, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

  1. The first is evidence offered in support of the argument's recommendation; the second is that recommendation itself.
  2. The first is a position that the argument opposes; the second is evidence offered against that opposing position.
  3. The first is the recommendation the argument advocates; the second is evidence offered in support of that recommendation.
  4. The first is a concession made to an opposing point of view; the second is the main conclusion of the argument.
  5. The first is the argument's main conclusion; the second is an objection that the argument then goes on to rebut.

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