Originally Posted by filtersweep
You are lucky if you've never heard a driver tell you that you belong on the sidewalk... I've heard it at least a dozen times- as I was biking.
I've never been told that I belong on the sidewalk. I have been told that "there's a bike lane, you have to use it" when I chased down a woman who had leaned on the horn as she passed me recklessly on a double-solid line in a blind curve, just in front of a school bus of kids, in a 25-mph zone in which I was riding 25 mph, next to the bike lane which was full of broken limbs and other debris. That bike lane has done me more harm than good.
I have also been told that I wasn't "sharing the road" as the signs command -- on a four-lane surface street. So I'm not a big fan of "share the road" signs either. I rank them right alongside the signs that read "This is a crime watch community. All suspicious activity is reported to the police."