New Bike Lanes on 15th Street heading south, Crossing RI Avenue. Not only are they going the wrong way down a one way street, they are one way lanes, and have an entirely excessive number of yellow reflector cones outlining the entire lane at least for 5 blocks. Why on earth would DC make lanes in this manner? I ride to and from work (and everywhere else) every single day and the only way to ever sensibly share the road is to make bike lanes that go with traffic, since cyclists are supposed to behave like traffic. If I’m hurtling downhill on 15th street and cars/pedestrians/etc. are going north and turning left, whatever, there’s no reason they would expect to see traffic suddenly coming in the opposite direction. Literally – makes no sense. Why would I go down a one way street when I could simply go over one street to 14th or 16th like all other traffic on a two-way street? This only encourages bad bike commuters who think they can go the wrong way down one way streets and creates anxiety for nervous drivers. Bad call.
