Originally Posted by
carlotta
*Cop (motorcycle) chewed me out as I was turning into work for turning left from the traffic lane and not the bike lane. I had also moved into the traffic lane to go around a sloooooow bike in the bike lane (it's uphill) and the cop saw that and gunned it up behind me to yell at me, even though I signaled both my pass and my turn and if he would've been behind me a block earlier he would've seen three bikes blow past me while I waited for the red light to change....... guess it's time to figure out Philly bike laws since what I did is legal in other places I've ridden and that's a turn I make every day....
It's definitely a good idea to know the laws. If the cop was in the wrong you could've spouted the appropriate code section and threaten to report him for harassment (and/or ignorance

) if the move was in fact legal.