david baker
I live in Bend so this is biased towards having less traffic but..
I use that passing method a lot while driving, so I would have to come out
in support of it. Of course one should visually confirm the lane is not
being used at the time, but I think cars should be allowed to enter the bike
lane the same way bikes can enter the car lane. If everyone understands that
there should not be a problem. If by "cut off "you mean they nearly hit you
that is wrong. If you mean that you had to slow down because cars were in
the bike lane, we are all sharing the same road, you are traffic so you have
to wait too. I do not know if there is a law against it.
Those accidents you talk about sound suspiciously like darwin's effect at
work.
Maybe in really bad spots they should put barriers or other special methods
in place.
---- Original Message -----
From: "Quenton Conant"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:56 AM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] bike/road laws
>I have a question. it seemsI get cut off quite a few times by cars passing
>on the right to go aroudn cars turning left. They pass into the bike and/or
>parking lane. sometimes rolling from as far back as 6 car lengths. I'm
>pretty used to it, but it really irritates me. Are there any laws that
>pertain to this type of driving?
>
> This not only disrupts the flow of traffic, but has caused several
> accident, some right in front of me, from cars in the oncomming lane
> turning left who don't see these drivers comming around.
>
> don't get me wrong. I'm all for sharing the road, and do it as
> respectively as possible on all occasions.
>
> I remember something similar but contradictory while reading the drivers
> manual years ago.
>
> Is the bike lane considered a viable route for an automobile?
>
>
> how would one go about requesting "stings" at certain intersections? I can
> think of a dozen where this happens regularly.
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