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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I agree that it is confusing to use the term "salmoning" to describe both riding the wrong way down a one-way street and riding the wrong way in a bike lane.
Riding the wrong way is always salmoning.
Alex Z said:
I agree that it is confusing to use the term "salmoning" to describe both riding the wrong way down a one-way street and riding the wrong way in a bike lane.
Anne, don't you think it's fair to say that one is more problematic than the other?
In either case, you are creating a hazard for yourself and others.
It would be interesting to know whether there is an increased incidence of accidents in or near the contraflow bike line on Ardmore.
I think many of the one-way streets mentioned above could easily handle a contraflow bike lane, and I don't really see a downside.
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."
Anne Alt said:
In either case, you are creating a hazard for yourself and others.
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