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AG: Legal isn't always smart
Frank Krygowski wrote:
Good post. Just one quibble: "... if there is a solid line, a vehicle is expected to stay in that lane, and a vehicle should not cross a solid line. That's not only a double yellow line, but a single white line, as well." In Ohio, the Ohio Bicycle Federation got a law passed specifically permitting motorists to cross a solid yellow line, when safe to do so, in order to pass a vehicle (that includes bicycle) moving less than half the speed limit. It's a good law. It's what people have always done when needing to pass a disabled vehicle creeping along the road, a mail truck stopping at every mailbox, a horse and buggy, and a slow-moving bicycle in a lane too narrow to share - provided the cyclist is smart enough to stay out of the gutter. The yellow lines are painted with the assumption that one car is trying to pass a slightly slower one. They're unrealistically restrictive for passing truly slow vehicles. Good clarification. I had forgotten about scenario of temporary lane change for overtaking, although I suspect that there's probably a measure of variance from state to state. Smith |
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