Originally Posted by
electrik
The situation i had in mind is was one lane road w/bike lane on the right, immediately before the intersection a second lane on the right opens up(not signed as right turn only) and with dashed lines the bike lane crosses the new "right turn lane". So the situation is basically a two lane road without a right-turn lane and a pseudo bike-lane going through the right lane. A bit complicated.
I was curious in general if there was a better solution to the right-turn on red problem... it seems no matter how you look at it you'll be getting pushed or squeezed out of the way by other vehicles.
This intersection is on my route. It's a little different from what you describe -- it doesn't have a right turn-only lane, although cars are allowed to turn right on red (between 7 PM and 7 AM, anyway). You can see where the cars go, both straight ahead and during their turn. The red box is where I stop. There aren't enough pedestrians to make my position a problem for them (it's nothing like Lower Manhattan). I'm not projecting into the lane of the cross street, yet I'm more than a lane's width from the curb.
*add-on* Basically, I'm in no-man's land. Nobody walks there, nobody drives there (despite the satellite taking the photo during a lull
). At some intersections, places like this tend to collect fine gravel just because nothing drives on them. */end add-on*
As usual, it varies by intersection, but this kind of position works quite often for me.
