Bekologist

If you want to be 'polite' in your road use, sgoodri, you should accept the laws of your state and the responsibilities set out for bicyclists by the NCDOT and its' DMV, and get into step with the duties your state requires of slowly driven, narrow vehicles like bicycles to operate as far to the right as practicable on all roads.

North Carolina bicyclists are required, under the SMv-FRAP laws, to operate FRAP on all roads without explicit exceptions for avoiding unsafe lane widths, right turns, or other hazards not expressed in the North Carolina SMV-FRAP laws. of course, like the police manual steve is misdesigning and the drivers manual states that yes, bicyclists do have the right to take the lane when needed for their safety.

Suggestions bikes can, at times, take an entire lane for their safety is not a mandate from NCDOT, the raleigh police or the NC-DOT's DMV somehow implying bicyclists are in any way absolved of the clear statutory duty in North Carolina under SMV-FRAP laws to operate as far to the right as practicable.


whats' aggressive and even delusional is any advocacy that predicates laws written like the standard SMV-FRAP law only applies on unlaned roads and slowly driven, narrow vehicles have no duty to facilitate passing on two lane roads, where facilitating safe passing is at its most crucial.

Ludicrous positions on traffic laws must be avoided.

Astroturf advocacy that supports removing cyclists rights, like the fight in California by some 'advocates' to repeal BIKES-FRAP and subject bicyclists to the far more onerous SMV-FRAP laws, (relying on the fallacy slowly driven vehicles do not have to share two lane roads), is no friend of bicycling.