Originally Posted by
qclabrat
...I currently ride once a week against traffic...
Do some arithmetic and you may change your ways.
If you are riding at 15mph with traffic and motor vehicle operators are traveling 35mph, they effectively have time for their reaction as if they were traveling 20mph.
If you are riding at 15mph against traffic and motor vehicle operators are traveling 35mph, they effectively have time for their reaction as if they were traveling 50mph.
Seems pretty obvious to me. I never ride against traffic.