A friend of a friend wrote:

The only safe way for cars and bikes to share Friendship Ave is ONE AT A TIME. The bike lanes there give cyclists two choices: Either you use them, and subject yourself to hooks, buzzes, and doorings, or don’t use them, and subject yourself to harassment and hostility by vigilantes. It’s a lousy choice.

Bike lanes have been repainted on Friendship Avenue along Friendship Park. The road is quite simply

What should be done instead, then? As a friend-of-a-friend wrote on Facebook, “

I think bike lanes in the abstract are a good idea. I think Friendship Park is a bad place for them, and that just about everyone would be better off if they were removed and the entire right-of-way redone.

(Of course, this afternoon comes ample evidence via Angie Schmitt and Bike Cleveland that it could be worse…)