Originally Posted by LakeHouse
Riding on the road raises other issues. Us Alaskans have a interesting behavior when ot comes to cars turning left. I never understood why there were signs in the lower 48 states saying "NO PASSING ON THE RIGHT" You see, in Alaska, it is normal, when aproching a car turning left on a road, to pass them on the right. If the shoulder is wide enough, you dont slow down. If its not wide enough, you slow down a litttle, and drop the left tires off the road and pass. This applies everywhere. If your at a light, and want to turn right, you squeeze between the cars going straight and the guardrail/ditch/lightpole. It took me a few months of living in Washington to realize that this is not normal behavior.
I can tell you it's perfectly normal here in my area of Pennsylvania.
I was taken aback that the drivers in New Orleans stop and yield to pedestrians approaching crosswalks. In Pennsylvania, the de facto law is that an automobile has the right of way and the pedestrian can wait.