Salmoning poll

I ended up in West Town during the tail end of rush hour tonight, and saw a ridiculous amount of salmoning on the way there.... just wondering on average how often folks experience a rider coming at you going the wrong way.

How many times have you experienced it in the past week/month, and is there a place and time where you think you're more likely to encounter it? Have you noticed repeat offenders? Are there folks who seem to be doing it deliberately to endanger/scare the right-way riders?

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Permalink Reply by Alex Z on July 2, 2013 at 3:50am

To my mind, a cyclist biking the wrong way down a bike lane on a two-way street--Augusta, Milwaukee, Clark, Lincoln, you name it--is creating a much greater hazard than a cyclist biking down a quiet, one-way residential street without a bike lane.

In the former case, it is a serious hazard for the oncoming cyclist to avoid and creates a risk that one of the cyclists will be forced to swerve into possibly fast-moving traffic unexpectedly.

In the latter case, it's annoying but not nearly as dangerous. I see people salmon northbound on Washtenaw every day out my window. I would've describe it as "hazardous."

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