🚀 go-pugleaf

In rec.bicycles.soc Keith Lynch <kfl@clark.net> wrote:
: In article <65je70$pqa@snews1.zippo.com>,
: Vasos Panagiotopoulos [etc. etc.] wrote:
: > No - cylces on road (asphalt) on side streets - but
: > dismount/walk/sidewalk on narrow avenues (because motorists will try
: > to force cyclists onto the sidewalk on narrow avenues anyway)

: That's what the police should be dealing with.  Motorists who are
: trying to indtimidate cyclists into not using the public roads.

The law here in NYS explicitly gives cyclists the right to claim the lane
when it is unsafe to share a narrow lane, and I believe this is the law in
many (or most) other states as well.  The NYS DOT advises cyclists to
claim the lane prior to turns to prevent motorists from unsafely sharing a
turn lane (see their website) as well.

: If cyclists are on the sidewalk, it's almost always because they've
: been intimdated by motorists.

Yes.

: And you suggest that the law *support* the motorists in doing this?

Motorists are _required_ to exercise "due care" in avoiding collisions
with motorists, cyclists and all other road users.  Cyclists have all the
rights and responsibilities of other vehicles in all 50 states.

: If a lane is too narrow for motorists and cyclists to travel side by
: side, then cyclists belong in the center of the lane.  If a motorist
: is unwilling to share, they don't have to use that lane, or that road.
: There's a multi-billion dollar network of trails for the exclusive use
: of motorists.  It's called the interstate highway system.  I suggest
: motorists unwilling to share the roads use it.
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Nick Zymaris
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