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Old 06-13-16 | 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by RPK79
This. Why would you filter past all the cars at the stop sign on a road with no shoulder/bike lane?
I never used to but I have started to. There's one specific intersection on my route where I do. It's a stop sign, the cross street is 55 MPH with no stops for miles, there's usually solid lines of cars with breaks sometimes only once a minute that one or two cars can get into, and there are usually 30 or more cars lined up at the sign, almost all of them waiting to turn left.

If I wait in line there, it can easily be 10 minutes to get through the intersection. Last week I started riding through the gravel to get to the front of the line. I stop between two cars that both have their left turn signals on so that I can turn left on a wide line outside of their line and not risk getting plowed into by someone going straight. I'm turning onto a road that has an entire lane marked as shoulder (I guess, or parking, but there's never anyone parked there) so I am many feet from the lane after turning, so nobody has any complaint about me doing it.

This reduces my wait from 10 minutes to less than a minute around the corner.
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