I live in a beach town and my commute takes me through a two lane road running parallel to the beach, with parking on the beachside curb. So I'm riding behind cars and motorcycles, stop and go traffic because everyone is cruising, looking for parking and yielding to pedestrians in the crosswalk. Also in the mix is runners in the street running the opposite way in the door zone. I really don't have any choice but to go with the traffic. I can't filter on the right because I'll be in the door zone, plus the runners and pedestrians there also.

But of course a roadie filtered on the right despite all this going on. To each his own, but it was a beautiful summer day in Maine and it seemed like the best thing to do was to be traffic, and wait my turn through this stretch. The roadie did make his way through traffic but not without taking risks for not only her safety but pedestrians in crosswalks. And in order to get past some cars she went into the oncoming lane to get around them when she found herself caught with pedestrians in the crosswalk blocking her filtering on the right.