I just re-checked the code to make sure before answering. The code states (as do most) that a cyclist has to ride as far to the right of the lane as is reasonable and safe except to turn left, avoid obstacles, or.....to overtake vehicles progressing in the same direction. But it does not state that the only way I can overtake a vehicle is to move to its left. Nor does it state that I cannot pass a vehicle on its right. Some gray area, I believe. So what I did was not illegal, but not expressly legal either. Such questions enable my attorney friends to make a good living.

So I think this really comes down to a question not only of what is legal but what is reasonable. Clearly, the code has no problem with a bicycle and a car sharing a lane side by side if there is room. And perhaps you are right, maybe the intent of the code is to require cyclists me to pass slow moving or stopped vehicles not on their right, but on their left. If that is the case, and I actually tried to do that (pass a line of vehicles on the left hand side of the lane and then move over to the right to go through the light), I would definitely have more people uptight and angry than a single guy on a 'bent. Yes, one could simply wait in cue, and I have done that in special circumstances. But I don't feel required by law to do so.