Originally Posted by
Digital_Cowboy
And just because we're riding a bike that is stopped at a traffic light why should we be treated any differently than any other vehicle that was first in line?
Exactly! And I hate it when a car squeezes by a line of cars by driving in the bike lane and then encounters me at the limit line. They act like they have the right to drive in the bike lane but I don't have the right to be stopped at my own bike lane limit line.
However, based on your picture I might (just might) have rolled through the cross walk and waited next to the little island between the straight go-ers and the turn lane. Not that you should have to, but it would make it easier to take the lane on the other side of the intersection because there is no bike lane and no room to share the lane.
Edit: And I mean rolled up to the island initially, not at the promptings of an ***hole!