Originally Posted by
Boston Commuter
Since every car and bike is at a standstill at that intersection anyway, you may as well just (1) pull your bike onto the sidewalk and (2) walk it through the intersection (cross as a pedestrian). That way you'll get a crossing light to give you the right of way. Then (3) re-mount your bike and continue.
But then your still preventing the cross traffic from clearing the intersection as quickly as possible. If I were forced to stay in that bike lane, I would wait until the cross traffic had passed, even though I had the green light and the right of way. Likewise, I would wait as a ped rather than cross in front of the waiting cars at the cross walk.
Well, I would the above unless it was truly a standstill, which it rarely is. The traffic does move, just very slowly.