Originally Posted by Helmet Head
No. Other vehicles in the rightmost lane with through rights normally do not merge into the next lane at every intersection. However, this is because they NEVER, EVER, NEVER put a normal lane (not a bike lane) that allows through travel to the right of a lane that allows right turns, so drivers of other vehicles never find themselves in the situation that every cyclist is in at every intersection with a bike lane that is not to the left of a right only lane.
If a traffic engineer ever created a through/right lane to the right of another through/right lane, he would be fired on the spot, and for good reason. Yet that's exactly what they do with bike lanes regularly, and almost nobody complains at all. It's insane.
I don't disagree. (makes sure the earth hasn't stopped)
Here's the thing....I don't care what the engineers do. Just because there is a solid line doesn't mean I'm gonna use it to filter up to the front when I KNOW that folks are going to be making a right. But it doesn't mean I'm going to merge over into the other lane either. Just like driving, I'm gonna use the sense God gave me, based on the conditions at hand, to decide how, where, when and even if, I am going to stop, filter, merge, take a pee, etc. That's the problem I have with both sides of this BL debate...there are no hard fast rules, unless YOU choose to make them that way. I think that's the point that Bek tries to make in his own way, as well as TJ my brutha.
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