Originally Posted by
MMACH 5
I had a driver pull along side me, during this morning's commute and tell me that I'm supposed to be over by the curb, not in the middle of the lane. This was in a part of my commute where there are several traffic lights, so we got to continue the discussion for a bit, at each red light. It's a four lane road with a median and lanes obviously too narrow to share with a bicycle.
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I've had this experience a number of times, although my driver started with profanity right away and got more verbally abusive from there. She expressed moral outrage that I was bicycling in the street, telling me that Wilmington doesn't have bike lanes like Philadelphia (so bicyclists can't use the roads).
Like your conversation, we were in parallel lanes (2 southbound lanes) for about a mile or so, stopping at each light. I don't see how having a bicycle instead of a car in the next lane affected her at all, but she was convinced bicyclists aren't allowed to use roads and can't (aren't allowed to?) go as fast as cars (so she was doubly infuriated and profane when I ignored her rules).