Originally Posted by
alan s
Going to the front is following the same rules. They pass you, you pass them. No rule says passing a car or bike in the same lane as you is wrong. Why wait behind cars if they are stopped? Seems pointless.
While it's true that cars likely passed you in order to get in front of you at the light while you were still moving, but I can accept that because I am a slower moving vehicle. When we are all stopped I take the entire lane behind cars waiting to turn, essentially telling the drivers behind me that this is my space; do not try to pull up beside me. That has happened a few times when I've left a bit too much space on the left, and I get quite annoyed. So now I just stop right in the middle of the lane. As soon as I've safely made the turn I drop off to the right again.
I'm sure what you do is fine too, but I if I am driver and I see a bike pulling up beside me, even though there's not a whole lot of room I might get a bit annoyed by it.