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What Are Your Peeves?
I encountered one of my pet peeves on the way to work today. About seven or eight bicyclists were ahead of me on the road. The road had a fairly wide bike lane — easily wide enough for one rider, and perhaps wide enough for two. The riders, however, were ignoring the bike lane and riding in the (only) traffic lane, generally two abreast (occasionally three abreast).
I live in a scenic and hilly area outside the city, which is quite popular for bicyclists. There are “Share the Road” signs up in the area. But I regularly encounter bicyclists whose idea of “sharing the road” is to block the entire car lane.
So, these are two of my pet peeves: (1) bicyclists who use the traffic lane even when there is a bike lane provided, and (2) bicyclists who ride side-by-side, blocking traffic.
I do understand that there are occasionally good reasons for this behavior. For example, there may be rocks or other obstacles in the bike lane, or a rider may be passing another. Neither of these exceptions were present today (or generally in my area).
What are your pet peeves?
Published in General
I was driving home tonight in the left turn lane waiting for the light to turn green.
Two cars were ahread of me: a civilian driver in front, and a cop behind him.
As the civilian went to turn left at the light, a cyclist sped through the intersection, nearly getting hit.
The cop turned on his lights
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and pulled the civilian driver over.
I thought for sure he was going to chase down the cyclist, but I guess I was wrong.
Welcome to California?
Was it a protected turn, or did the driver have to yield to the cyclist?
I’d have to revisit the intersection to be sure but from memory, it was a green left turn arrow protected turn with a pedestrian walk timing coinciding.
If the cyclist had been a pedestrian this probably wouldn’t have happened, but he sped into the crosswalk causing the civilian driver to brake in the middle of his turn for a second or two while the cyclist cleared the street.