Originally Posted by mechanicalron

I live downtown and bikes are faster than cars for the most part so I get a lane and pass when I need to and stay to the left of cars turning right. Most of the roads have 3 or 4 lanes downtown and I use them all like a car would. Cars here are so sluggish and slow in the day time with all the traffic that they start to not even matter to me. One thing to watch is the one way streets bet big buildings. People from out of town can be going the wrong way through red lites and not even know it! The lights are pointing away from them and the city can be distracting. you can get totaly smoked this way!