08-03-2004, 01:27 PM
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On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 17:15:49 -0400, Luigi de Guzman <luigi12081@cox.net>
wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -Luigi
>
> go play in traffic!
>
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> Photos, rants, raves
I'd probably do what you're doing. I find that the worst time for me is
people taking right turns. In fact, I hit someone who turned right in
front of me (no turn signal, of course).
--
Bob in CT
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