Originally Posted by
DaveWC
Of course you can. You get off your bike and walk it for the 100 yards. The car had the right of way. We fight hard enough for our share of the road when we have a legal right to it. The last thing we need is cyclists fighting for an illegal right to the road.
When I was living in NYC, there was all kinds of salmoning, and a lot was justified with, "but I just have to go half a block!" (lots of one-way streets), which I always found to be an incredibly weak answer - dude, you on a friggin' *bike,* how hard is it to go around the block?