Originally Posted by
Digital_Cowboy
I presume that you are talking about right hand turns, right? IF the bike lane was laid out "correctly" it should pass to the left of the right hand turn lane not to the right of it, and/or it should transition from a solid line to a dashed line the closer to the intersection one gets.
Right hand turn lanes don't exist everywhere... sometimes the BL is just dashed right before the intersection, that is the area where a merge should take place.
The real problem is that we don't teach beginning drivers how to do this and how treat other road users... drivers' ed is a joke and this is the easiest country in the world to get and hold a driver's license. Road engineers and laws focus on flow, not safety.... and drivers think they own the road.