I made it a point to ride through downtown on my way home, on the 14th Street bike lane. I hit the lane at 14th and L a few minutes after 5:OO pm. I encountered no trouble from other vehicles on the road. Everyone, including me, observed the rules of the road, and I was not in any particular danger. I would have been more or less the same if there were no bike lane, with the exception that I would have had to slow down from 25 mph to match the motorized traffic.
Reports of the dangerous, scary narrows that are the bike lanes seem greatly exaggerated.
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