Inman has long been a difficult and stressful spot and everybody knows this.
Cambridge voters selected bike fixes in Inman Square as one of their FY17 Participatory Budgeting projects, and several Inman area bike/ped projects are leading in the FY18 round, including this innovative proposal to rename the square after Cambridge city councilors each time somebody is hit and injured there. There's a litany of complaints and pleas for traffic enforcement at Inman Square on the city's 311 system. And the city has been working on an intersection redesign for a year now, with still months to go before even the design phase begins.
I'm not surprised that someone would be intimidated into riding in the door zone through there, but I will be surprised if Cambridge manages to make any improvements before the end of 2017.
The lack of infrastructure in Inman will become even more glaring when cyclists are dumped into it via the Beacon St cycle track just a block north of the intersection. Hopefully that contrast will be another catalyst for change.