This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It’s not legal, but protests are never useful if they’re fully legal now, are they.
just to say where I’m coming form: I communte by bike, thankfully living somewhere drivers are relatively polite and bike friendly.
Riding into oncoming traffic isn’t going to convince any drivers you’re in the right. it’s just being stupid and unsafe. They want to raise awareness, I get it, and this driver is certainly a whiny, entitled brat. but what the cyclists are doing here is just reinforcing the driver’s poorly informed opinion that bikes are the problem.