Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff
The bike lanes which are added are, by and large, wide enough to avoid forcing the cyclist to swerve out of the lane to avoid stuff.
What this does is it limits the scope of the 3 foot rule to those roads which don't have bike lanes. When there is a bike lane, the cyclist is either in the bike lane or outside of it. For a car to pass, if the cyclist is in the bike lane, it is just like a normal pass. If the cyclist is outside the bike lane, then the car should be forbidden from passing except by changing lanes like they would for any other situation.
What is wide enough?
What defines a cyclist being in the bike lane? Their tire, or the outermost protrusion?
What about the non-'by and large wide enough' bike lanes. What if a cyclist swerves then?
Al