http://www.ride-strong.com/bicycling-the-law-your-rights-as-a-cyclist/ the blog for cyclists Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.ride-strong.com/bicycling-the-law-your-rights-as-a-cyclist/#comment-646 Karen Burwell Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:15:46 +0000 http://www.ride-strong.com/bicycling-the-law-your-rights-as-a-cyclist/#comment-646 We used to ride downtown in city traffic every day. At first , we tried keeping to the right side of the street. Impossible, what with trash, drains, parked cars, and so on. We changed our strategy to riding side by side , far apart enough to take up one lane. Cars seemed to see us and respect our right to be there. In those days, no driver ever gave us any grief; in fact, we fetl respected by the motorists in the city. We always obeyed all the traffic laws and were careful, but never had a problem. However, I don't know if I'd ride side by side in city traffic these days. Things are a lot different now than they were then. But bike lanes in most places are full of trash, broken glass, all sorts of debris as well as brush growing out into them; not safe for cycling. We used to ride downtown in city traffic every day. At first , we tried keeping to the right side of the street. Impossible, what with trash, drains, parked cars, and so on. We changed our strategy to riding side by side , far apart enough to take up one lane. Cars seemed to see us and respect our right to be there. In those days, no driver ever gave us any grief; in fact, we fetl respected by the motorists in the city. We always obeyed all the traffic laws and were careful, but never had a problem. However, I don’t know if I’d ride side by side in city traffic these days. Things are a lot different now than they were then.
But bike lanes in most places are full of trash, broken glass, all sorts of debris as well as brush growing out into them; not safe for cycling.

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