utter nonsense. i gave warning that i was passing him and i was in the opposing traffic lane when he made an abrupt, sharp 90 degree turn right into my bicycle. the fact that he apologized about a dozen times for not looking first before he turned made it pretty obvious that he was the party at fault.

as for not using MUPs. i would like to ride exclusively in the street, but the lakefront path saves me so much damn time (when i'm not colliding with idiot joggers ). my commute is 15 miles each way, and if i did it all on street, i'd have to ride all the way from downtown chicago to downtown evanston along clark street, which has about 100 traffic lights over the course of that distance. it's all urban and congested THE WHOLE WAY. the 8 miles of uninterrupted lakefront path where i can cruise without traffic lights shaves a whole boatload of time of my ride.