How a significant part of public opinion sees people on bikes
How a significant part of public opinion sees people on bikes
People on bikes may be rude and may not follow the rules, but can't be aggressive.
When a man with a .45 meets a man with a rifle, the man with a pistol will be a dead man.
Original stripe from the Onion: https://www.theonion.com/bum-rush-hour-1846606314
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Drivers in my city liberally use the bike lane as an impromptu turn lane, especially if another car is behind them even more if a bike is in the lane.
If it's California that's legally required. I know bicyclists in California are unfamiliar with the concept of laws, but that's how they work.
There's a dotted line when a car lane crosses a bike lane. That is not in every intersection. I agree we need to standardize and dummy proof stuff more but there's only so much you can do with drivers who think it's okay to turn the shoulder into an extra lane during a highway backup.
It is illegal to drive in a bicycle lane unless you are: Turning (within 200 feet of an intersection).
From California drivers handbook. Those dotted line sections are typically 20 ft not 200.
I think you may be the only person in the state to have read that, also the dotted lines need to extend that far then. Their entire purpose is to visually represent that area.
Given how drivers are here I don't think the visual is really a huge problem (lots of line followers, super weird. A lot of them don't seem to even know that single white lines are just a suggestion, pretty pathetic. I get honked at all the time for treating a double wide stop sign as having a right turn lane because people here just love waiting and not having to think while driving. It's awwwfulllll.)
We'll yeah, you're kind of supposed to follow the lines. The entire point of them is to be a visual indicator, especially in border areas where you get a lot of people from out of state/country driving. It's the agreed principle that keeps car accidents from happening.
I don't think you've driven a car before
That's a weird thing to say
woe is you thinking the bike lane is anything more than an extended turn lane, especially outside of California.
we should all be more like Frayedpickles here and mow down the bikes in the bike only lane, teach them that they should keep their weak aluminum a-frames off our glorious car lanes.
I'm just telling you what the law is in California, you seem butthurt about it, so change it. You are legally required to block the bike lane when turning in order to provide safety to the bicyclists.
I don't get this reaction. Cars should be in the bike lane for turning because after dooring the most common way to get injured is getting hooked by a turning car. Where I live we don't really have bike lanes, but when you do have them cars don't tend to look for you passing and turn as soon as they are signaled to do so.
just like school shootings, this seems to not be an issue in the rest of the world.