After playing a video of a bike lane in Los Angeles that suddenly disappears only half a block from where it started, Slate V started a national contest to find the stupidest bike lane in America. The winner? A 20-foot dead-end patch of road that invites bicyclists to go the wrong way down a one-way street. And it’s right here in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Via Streetsblog LA.

Continue the conversation about urbanism in the Washington region and support GGWash’s news and advocacy when you join the GGWash Neighborhood!

Tagged: bicycling, bike lanes, maryland, montgomery county, silver spring

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.