Originally Posted by
Digital_Cowboy
So is it safe to presume that you take the view as John Forester has said numerous times of cyclist inferiority, i.e. because we're not operating an automobile so that we for whatever reason do not have the same right to be on the road with them. It is high time that that way of thinking changed. We have just as much right to use the road as any motorist.
I do not know in what context Forresters opinions were made known. Context matters. America is a strange place and its legal precepts and statutes are full of loopholes and favoritism. I wouldn't interpret any judges decision as indicative of anything. I didn't say all cyclists should be in the bus lane, I said that "I would have been in that bus lane". And I would have. I would make better time in the bus lane, even with the parked cars than another cyclist using the vehicle lane. To me it wouldn't be a surrender, it would be an advantage! I see everyday, cyclists exercising their "right" to be vehicles, and I laugh, because I choose to exercise my right to be an innovative exploiter of my advantages of small size and width and use all available avenues for forward progress. FWIW.