Should we take this as a threat? Cycling terror on Delaware Ave.

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Should we take this as a threat? Cycling terror on Delaware Ave.

POSTED: Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 9:00 AM

On the list of utterly petrifying places to ride a bike in Philadelphia — the City Hall roundabout, say, or the place on Baltimore Avenue where a bunch of trolley tracks intersect — Delaware Avenue barely ranks. It has bike lanes, after all (except in the places where they have worn off almost completely, which are many), and someone recently went around sprucing up the lane lines in places. Except, what the hell is going on just south of Spring Garden Street? For about half a block, the bike lane disappears as the road and sidewalk seemingly veer toward one another. Worse, a new lane line actually runs over the poor ghost of a cyclist icon, in what we hope SugarHouse-bound drivers will not take as encouragement. 

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