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In article <1993Feb12.172922.3036@casbs.Stanford.EDU>, nancy@casbs.Stanford.EDU
(Nancy Pinkerton) writes:
|> Greetings!  This is my first post, so I hope it works.

Seems to have.   Welcome!

|> I am a walker and a car driver.  I don't ride a bike, so I've
|> always wondered WHY, when there is a nice, wide, marked bike
|> lane available, do so many cyclists drive precicely on the
|> white line separating the bike lane from the driving lane?

I can offer a few reasons.  Often the bike lane has problems such
as broken pavement, potentially unsafe drain gratings,
and very often, broken glass in it.  If these are present, but
only occasional, then one can weave back and forth around them,
or stay at the point where the roadway is consistenly satisfactory.
I'm sure other people can suggest others.  No doubt there are some
cyclists who have "no good reason" for this, just as there are many
car drivers who drive erraticly or/or unsafely.  The worst of each
mode tarnishes the rest.

I often ride in the middle or left part of the lane when I don't
think it is safe for a car to pass me.  If a car is behind me,
and I think it is safe to pass, I will move far to the right.
The idea is to be clear about my expecation to the car driver.

Now I've got a question for car drivers.  Why do some car drivers
think that turn signals are to let you know that the car started
turning 5 seconds previously?  Probably a rhetorical question.
For the rest of you, thanks for signaling!

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Bruce Nordman
B_Nordman@lbl.gov