Originally Posted by
neil
In general, I'd prefer that cars safely move into the bike lane to turn right, as otherwise the risk of right hooks significantly increases.
Whether it's legal or not depends on the right of way setup of the lane. Many bike lanes change to dashed lines near the corner, allowing straight-through bikes and right-turning cars. Other places deal with the right hook problem by adding bike boxes. Either solution is fine by me, but that intersection you posted has neither, and looks downright scary as a result.
It seems like this is an ambiguity in the law, to me. You have to be in the right lane to make a right turn, normally. So the question is whether the bike lane counts as a "lane", legally, if there are no dashed lines. What does the law say happens when the intersection is improperly designed like that? Are cars banned from using the bike lane because it's a bike lane, or are they actually required to use the bike lane because it's part of the roadway and is the right-most lane? I'm actually not sure how that should be interpreted.
Either way, I'd much prefer either the dashed lines, the bike lane markings ending before the intersection, or a dedicated right-turn-lane to the right of the bike lane.