john,
there is no 'edge of the roadway' wording in the UVC or any state law i have read. the wording is "as far right as practicable".
John's pithy "the edge of the roadway" is in and of itself a misleading interpretation of what as far right as practicable legally means in courtrooms. Perhaps john would secretly like cyclists constrained to the edge, and is willing to perpetuate a misleading interpretation of traffic laws, the prejudice that he apparently condemns above as " how the FTR laws have been enforced in many locations".
ADDITIONALLY to that point, in many states it is only required in the presence of overtaking traffic. Absent the conditions of overtaking traffic, cyclists suffer no onerous burden to operate as far right as is practicable. Only 13 states require a cyclist stay stay safely right with no other traffic overtaking.
about a dozen states is a far cry from 'nearly all states' requiring this default road position of cyclists, john forester.
This irrefutable reality of state traffic laws fundamentally exposes john foresters' fraudulent interpretation of traffic laws as they apply to bicyclists.
let's continue this debate in another thread, john forester, as the reasons this thread was started was not to debate your fallacious and misleading interpretations of traffic laws.
Last edited by Bekologist; 05-17-10 at 12:09 AM.