Originally Posted by sbhikes

A new one for me. Riding down the boulevard, it's two lanes in each direction. I'm in the bike lane. There's a horse and carriage in the right lane. Wasn't sure what the protocol was. If I stay in the bike lane would the horse freak out with me on one side of him and cars on the other? Why wasn't the horse and carriage in the bike lane? Tractors certainly would have been. Anyway, I was pretty scared of the horse (I'm not a horse person, man those things are big, I think it was a Clydesdale) so I passed it on the left out in traffic. What are you supposed to do? Was the driver leaving the bike lane open for me?