This is a nice alternative and it is especially appealing because it skips all the rigamarole of violation and enforcement and doesn't require continuous labor from the city. Thanks.

Getting doored into traffic is way more dangerous than getting doored into a sidewalk. If you have data that suggest otherwise, I will back down on this point, because we ought to make these decisions based on the best available evidence. But the way I see it, the best available evidence would say sidewalk-side is better. For example, the wikipedia article on dooring says "[G]etting doored itself usually is not fatal; rather, most serious door-zone-related injuries are sustained by getting hit by a motor vehicle after colliding with or swerving to avoid the obstructing door. Thus, most dooring deaths and serious injuries occur in the travel lane and not in the door zone."

Oh, that's really interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I would be a little concerned about creating incentives that could be abused. To me, getting the car out of the bike lane is its own reward.

oh interesting. I will keep an eye out for that.

I tend to see different cars each time and usually with license plates. I assumed it would be harder to combat since it's many rotating illegal parkers, rather than a few sitting long-term. Maybe we're talking about different places? Or maybe usage depends on the time of day?

That makes sense, but on 20th, there's already a row of parking inside the bike lane. It's very unusual in Baltimore to have two side-by-side lanes of parking with one boxed in against the sidewalk by the other. I don't think people would mistake this for that.

That's an illegal lockout. You might be able to get some legal help here: https://dhcd.baltimorecity.gov/legal-resources-renters-baltimore-city

I'm not sure if everyone on this thread will know already, but there are also a lot of places in Baltimore with one-way car traffic and two-way bike lanes. Certain motorists and pedestrians will be caught off guard by this, especially when it's fairly newly painted/installed like on Lanvale or on 20th.

dtf. I mean, dtr.

You can report parked cars in bike lanes via the 311 app. https://www.bikemore.net/news/how-to-report-vehicles-parked-in-bicycle-paths-and-lanes-in-baltimore

Fair enough. I guess I should have said they mostly speak Spanish in the front of the house there too. Thought it might be useful for OP to know.

Other place was hudson street stackhouse -- they've got an ad in the window.

I just saw an ad at Mi Comalita in charles village, but it looked like they mostly speak Spanish in the back of the house there. Ad was in spanish. Thought I saw another one recently and I will comment again if I can figure out where it was.