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Old 09-13-16 | 09:45 AM
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HardyWeinberg
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From: south Puget Sound
I had this big intersection toward the end of my commute, one 7 lane road (2 bike lanes, 4 car lanes, one turn lane) crossing another. I was bombing up to the queue of cars stopped at the light I was going to stop at, when a car started pushing out in front of me from a gas station. It couldn't get into the car lane, couldn't get out of the bike lane. So I swung out to the left edge of the car lane, plenty of room to get between it and the car at the end of the car lane queue, and went on up to the light that had turned by then. By the time I got up to the light, the 3rd car in the queue was turning right and I was next to it so I wound up going right with him, braking, and he stopped before I fully stopped or had to hop up onto the curb of the right turn so then I just went back to where I was going in front of him and through the intersection. I feel bad about not stopping sooner and waiting for him to turn in front of me. I am still annoyed at that other car that camped in the bike lane though.
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