Riding across town today, I encountered 3 people salmoning up the wrong way on the bike lane in a 5 block span of a narrow one way st. This isn't anything new, but one of them came at me when I was swerving around a minivan cab that had stopped in the bike lane to let a passenger out. She came around the minivan from the wrong direction on a one way street with cars parked on both sides. I managed to pass without hitting her, but it scared the hell out of me. I stopped, turned, and hollered back that she was going the wrong way, and got a 'whatEVER' in response as she slowly pedaled her way up the street. I shot white hot death rays into her back with my eyes, but sadly, she remained unscathed, and continued on her way to blithely terrorize all who crossed her path.

I really don't have a point I'm trying to make, other than 'this happened and I am angry that it isn't an uncommon experience'. Just wanted to vent. I think cyclists in this city get a lot of grief, but when so many of them behave like this dummy, I understand why.

Anyone have any suggestions for how to convince a salmoner to stop riding upstream? Because apparently near-collisions are just too 'whatEVER' to register as possibly dangerous.