Originally Posted by
JohnBrooking
It may help that in Maine, the law actually allows motorist to cross a double-yellow, if it's safe, in order to give cyclists their 3'. So I think it's better to only require them to cross a foot or two over the line than 6' over the line. But in states without this law, I can see where you don't want to encourage the motorists to try to squeeze too close to avoid crossing the line at all.
John, what I do not understand, if it is safe to move one foot into the adjacent (or oncoming) lane, then it is safe to move completely into the adjacent lane. Is it really that hard to move a car over laterally that we need to save motorist such hardship rather than giving the added safety to the cyclist?
When I am driving, I have never found it any harder to move completely into the next lane than moving just one foot into the lane. I always had to wait until the entire lane was clear for me to move over either way.