You're driving next to a bicycle lane and need to turn right. Do you:
a.) Get over into the bicycle lane (but halfway out into the other lane) and turn or;
b.) Turn from the "right lane", crossing the bicycle lane perpendicularly?
I always do "B" and just turn from the right lane since I'm not on a bicycle and can't fit in its lane. I see most other cars just merging over into the bicycle lane which to me serves no purpose because you're still taking up half of the right lane. This morning I did "B" in front of a cop and he blew his siren at me. So now I'm thinking I've been wrong all along. I always thought the people driving in the bicycle lanes were obnoxious jerks but maybe it was me all along?
a.) Get over into the bicycle lane (but halfway out into the other lane) and turn or;
b.) Turn from the "right lane", crossing the bicycle lane perpendicularly?
I always do "B" and just turn from the right lane since I'm not on a bicycle and can't fit in its lane. I see most other cars just merging over into the bicycle lane which to me serves no purpose because you're still taking up half of the right lane. This morning I did "B" in front of a cop and he blew his siren at me. So now I'm thinking I've been wrong all along. I always thought the people driving in the bicycle lanes were obnoxious jerks but maybe it was me all along?
