>The problem with bikes and scooters is they try to enjoy the privileges of pedestrians while ignoring the fact that they have to obey traffic laws too.

that is exactly the point. bikes and scooters ARE like being a pedestrian and should be able to go both ways on any street. imagine if every sidewalk along a 1-way street could only be walked in one direction.

what you're saying is equivalent to: "I hate that people walk north on the sidewalk next to St. Paul street. why can't they just go over to Calvert sidewalks to walk north". it's ridiculous to force people walking to have to walk in the direction of cars. one-way streets only exist because of the shitty space efficiency and danger of cars.

just like pedestrians shouldn't have to walk only in one direction along the sidewalk, bikes/scooters should have a lane to go in both direction on each street.

our culture is so "Stockholm-syndromed" from cars that people just assume the car infrastructure is true, right, just, and handed down by god, and everything else must conform to them, and giving up single-digit percent of road space so that people don't have to do crazy circuitous routes to follow the dumbass car layout is unthinkable.

bikes and scooters don't need 1-way streets, just like pedestrians don't need 1-way sidewalks. one-way streets are a dumbass requirement because cars are a dumbass way to get around a city. the infrastructure should be updated so that people can use any other mode aside from a polluting, dangerous, lazy-boy on wheels. nobody is even asking to get rid of cars... just single-digit of space. that's it. but it's unthinkable...