I tire of hearing that FRAP is some kind of unfair handicap placed on cyclists. I say this with the understanding that it will taken as a guideline and that as the captain of his ship a cyclist has reasonable discretion as to what's practical or practicable.

In many 10s of thousands of miles over almost 50 years I've only had a single instance of an officer questioning my slightly right of center placement, and telling me to move over, and that was on my regular commuting route. Even in that one case, his supervisor happened by, asked what it was about, looked at the pavement, and asked in typical NY fashion "where the **** do you expect him to ride?" and sent me on my way with his best wishes.

Generally cyclists are slower moving vehicles compared to other traffic, and like ALL other slow moving vehicles are required to keep right allowing traffic to pass. In fact, in many states bicyclists are explicitly exempted from rules that require moving far right and stopping where possible to clear backed up traffic. So FRAP (if reasonable interpreted) isn't a problem or handicap, though I'm sure that in some areas officers might need some education.

IMO- and this is only MY opinion, over the last few decades, advocacy and lane assertiveness have been counter-productive, leading to driver anger, and separate but not equal facilities. If cyclists keep saying roads are unsafe, the easiest solution would be to push them off the roads "for their own safety".

Note, that I'm not advocating a cower in the rightmost foot of the lane approach. I generally ride in the right half of the right lane, but will move left as the situation calls for. However, I make it a point to share the road and create passing opportunities when and where possible, and am sensitive to how long drivers are trapped behind me. Let's focus on SHARING the road, and using as much pavement as needed, and encouraging courtesy and respect rather than asserting rights simply because we think we have them.

Sermon over.