Old 08-30-17, 10:58 AM
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There's one spot on my route where a bike lane leads directly between two lanes, both of which can turn right.

Their genius solution to this is to have the bike lane just abruptly disappear about 200 feet back from the intersection, then reappear on the other side.

This appears to me to be more of the DOT covering their behinds ("hey it's not our fault he got killed, there's no marked bike lane there") than anything to do with actual safety. I wonder if they assume I should merge into the center of the leftmost turn/straight combo lane and block traffic?

In reality what I do is to keep an eye open as to what the people to the left of me are doing, and if I'm entering the intersection and it looks like they're going to turn I'll command the lane and keep them behind me.
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