Where I live bikes have to block the traffic lane and you end up with a line of cars behind you a km long all going 15 in a 60 zone. Also cy lists get killed on these roads all the time so I see a bike less than once a year, but when I do, there are 100 cars behind them, or the bike is painted white in memorial to someone who died there.
Why do they have to block the lane? In some scenarios it is better to do this than not, but is your case a specific street or are all the streets that narrow?
There is no shoulder on the roads or bike lanes, just two lane roads (one each direction) with high speed limits and heavy truck traffic and commuters. Often they’re going 80kmh around blind curves. There are essentially never bikes but when there are they either die or they create huge backups.
In some states, cyclists legally get the entire lane. And when you’re going up to a low visibility intersection, you want to be in the middle of the road to maximize the angles that you’re visible
Where I live bikes have to block the traffic lane and you end up with a line of cars behind you a km long all going 15 in a 60 zone. Also cy lists get killed on these roads all the time so I see a bike less than once a year, but when I do, there are 100 cars behind them, or the bike is painted white in memorial to someone who died there.
Why do they have to block the lane? In some scenarios it is better to do this than not, but is your case a specific street or are all the streets that narrow?
There is no shoulder on the roads or bike lanes, just two lane roads (one each direction) with high speed limits and heavy truck traffic and commuters. Often they’re going 80kmh around blind curves. There are essentially never bikes but when there are they either die or they create huge backups.
In some states, cyclists legally get the entire lane. And when you’re going up to a low visibility intersection, you want to be in the middle of the road to maximize the angles that you’re visible