| Re: Stoplights: fatwa requested
Luigi de Guzman wrote:
> ... Is this permissible for the
> faithful cyclist, or should I just go back to waiting in the right
> lane?
Sounds fine to me. There's no law that says the bicycle _must_ be the
slowest vehicle on the road.
If you're moving at the speed of traffic, you should generally take the
lane.
If you're moving faster than the speed of traffic, you should generally
pass on the left. That's what you're doing.
The only trick is, keep aware of traffic in that right lane. You could
get into a weird situation where nobody does turn right, they buzz off
ahead of you, and impatient drivers behind you start peeling out of your
lane and passing you on your right. Not an insurmountable difficulty,
but you'd want to be careful with it because it's a little non-standard.
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