Originally Posted by RubeRad

Once in a while I hear similar concerns to the OP, and I'm happy to talk about the width of the bike lanes and zebra striping on my route, and how I'm riding the same roads at pretty much the same time every day with the same car-commuters, so they are used to seeing me, and how the real danger points are when bike lanes jump from the curb to the inside of right-turn lanes, but how I watch cars in my helmet mirror and very rarely see cars that race ahead of me to beat me into the right-turn lane, but almost always hang back and let me through, and, and, and

and they usually get tired before I do.