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Old June 3rd 06, 03:49 PM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
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Default a traffic dilemma

"recycled-one" wrote in message
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Assume you are making a left turn from a middle, left-only, lane onto
another multi-lane street.

How soon do you transit to the curb lane after the turn? Right away as
part of the turn? Or as a separate movement from the center lane to the
curb?

Now assume not far after the left you will be making another left as
diagrammed by the purple arrows:

http://www.geocities.com/siklelogical/stone.scott.bmp

Do you stay in the center lane? [blue arrows] Or transit to the curb lane
[red arrows] and then back to the center lane for the second left turn?

If it depends on how far the second left is, then how far is that?




I think it would depend on the time of day and how much traffic you had to
contend with.
If the traffic is heavy, I would simply turn left onto the sidewalk ride
against the traffic flow and not even bother getting onto the road for that
short of a distance.
I would have likely already be on the sidewalk on that side of the street
before the first left turn and probably cut through the alleys or parking
lots if possible and not even bother getting onto the roads or sidewalks in
that section.
If it is early, little traffic, then after the first left turn, stay in the
left lane and make the second turn just as though you were in a car.
Going all over the road like that makes you unpredicable and at higher risk
of getting hit. Taking the lane and staying in it would be the proper course
in my opinion.
You are only going a block or two there. Changing lanes like that means you
have to look for traffic, change lanes when it is safe, several times making
it more dangerous.


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