08-03-2004, 01:27 PM
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#7 (permalink)
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| | Re: Stoplights: fatwa requested
The _g_od John Forester has written "Cyclists fare best when they act and
are treated as drivers of vehicles." http://www.johnforester.com/
"Luigi de Guzman" <luigi12081@cox.net> wrote in message
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| On the way back home from the store, I roll up to a stoplight. The
| street is four lanes, two in each direction; the rightmost lane
| usually fills up with right-turning traffic, while the left-hand lane
| stays pretty loose. My way home is up a fairly gentle hill.
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| Now my first instinct as a law-abiding cyclist is to stop, take my bit
| of the lane, and wait in line. But I've done that for ages and ages,
| and I already know from experience that if I do, I'll just have to get
| rolling again in twenty to sixty seconds.
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| So today I do something a little different; I look over my shoulder,
| signal, join the left-hand lane, roll up right to the light. By this
| time, the light has changed, and I still have enough momentum to check
| back the other way, change back to the right lane, and move up the
| hill.
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| So, fatwa time, RBM traffic muftis: Is this permissible for the
| faithful cyclist, or should I just go back to waiting in the right
| lane? I mention this because motorists do this sort of thing all the
| time--line up in the left lane to get clear of a long line of
| right-turning traffic, and then change back into the right lane when
| the opportunity presents itself.
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| -Luigi
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| go play in traffic!
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