Originally Posted by joejack951
No, there is nothing stopping me from doing that, but isn't it a bit misleading for the paint on the street to demonstrate a back-ass-wards way of dealing with the intersection? Do you not see anything wrong with novice cyclists and motorists getting the expectation that cyclists should negotiate that intersection like the paint shows?
I think even novice cyclists have more cycling smarts and are more adaptable to their environment than the VC dogmatists wish to credit them. Few, if any novice cyclists, are cycling with dingy notions of transcendence based on what they read in a book or infer from a painted stripe: nor are they oblivious of their surroundings in a busy difficult intersection because of a painted stripe, as surmised by the VC dogmatists.