Being the curmudgeon I am, I have, for years been yelling at people who salmon northbound on the Broadway lane between 21st Street and 26th Street. (Generally when I'm southbound in the stretch north of 23rd street and they force me out of the bike lane into traffic, or force me to make a dead stop.) Like, I get it that it's weird the lane is two way from Union Square up to 21st street and then suddenly stops being two way; leads riders up a garden path and then unceremoniously ends. But a two-way treatment then picks up again at 26th street, sorta incongruously.
"Today", I say to myself, "you know, maybe that bit from 21st to 23rd isn't that bad a place to go wrong way & I've been overreacting. Maybe I can try it slowly tonight, as from where I'm coming from it'll be really convenient to pick up Madison northbound, but Madison doesn't start 'til 23rd."
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zomgwtfbbq. It felt so unsafe to do that, even going super slowly and deferring to everything. Am a pretty aggressive urban rider too; pretty much treat red lights as yield signs, don't lose much momentum at most intersections, have all sorts of strategies on the best way to get to the Bk side entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge, many of them not exactly legal. And even with all that: never again.
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Meanwhile some Citi e-bike mediocre-white-man businessdork just ahead of me barely slows down, interferes with the desired travel line of a southbound truck driver, almost clips a few east/west crosswalk pedestrians who weren't looking for him, and of course sails across 23rd street to continue in the part of the Broadway treatment where it's completely problematic to ride wrong way.
That was... chutzpah. & not in a good way.