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Teach pedestrians what the concept of transverse cycle lanes are. When they know it's a one-way street, they either don't look for bikes coming the "wrong" way. Or sometimes they obnoxiously stand in the cycle path, (wrongly) thinking you're cycling the wrong way up a one-way street. Have had one near miss with a lady with a pushchair, who was completely confused when I explained and one almost-fight when two pissed City-boys walked in front of me and one of them wanted to prove a point against cyclists.
"Yes, the cycle lane goes the other way. It's ONLY one way for cars. It's two-way for bikes, because THAT way, I can ride with the cars, THIS way I can ride against them. It's because the road is too narrow to be two way for cars but you can make it two way for bikes because they need much less room. See the way the picture of the bicycle on the ground over there is facing..? OK, well just remember to look out for this kind of cycle lane next time, ok?"