No, the car should have actually been in the bike lane at that point; the correct way to turn right across a bike lane is to check over your right shoulder, merge right when it’s clear, and continue in the bike lane (well, as far in it as you’ll fit) until the turn. Just as if the bike lane was any right-turn lane.

Otherwise, as you say, there’s an obvious conflict.

That said, I can’t recall if I’ve *ever* seen a motorist do that–most people see the bike lane much as they would a shoulder, and just turn across it at the last minute. So for a cyclist I’d actually recommend merging left into the rightmost traffic lane before going straight through–again, as if the bike lane were a dedicated right-turn lane.

The savage hamsters from the pet stores have always known me to be a rat/mouse lover, and I can’t even get close to them without their eyes turning red and their cacophonous hissing burning my eardrums. Bitten? Yes, and I have the antidote to savage hamster zombie’ism! I have never met a hamster that wasn’t merely a poseur of loveable fluffiness and political correctness (and sharp teeth).

Just so you know… LOL

I don’t know how you can mix bike lanes with traffic lanes without problems like this.

“Cars and pedestrians pay nothing, or nearly nothing, for their momentum.”

I think kinetic energy would have been more to the writer’s point, in terms of the economics of stopping and starting. Pedestrians and cyclists pay for theirs in oatmeal and apples; and it’s cheap for pedestrians because their velocity is quite low, and KE goes as the square of velocity. Cars, on the other hand, pay at the rate of about four bucks a gallon, give or take.

Just trying to tie it all together.

And Biden on the ticket is reassuring to some of us who aren’t voting for the ticket, but understand they may just prevail in the Electoral College this December. (And the Dems get bonus points for putting the Navajo/Dineh Codetalkers up as the Color Guard! Plus the kids are delightful. Everyone else is planning on watching C-SPAN obsessively the next few days, right?)

But maybe it’s all about the goofy Lance Armstrong outfits.

(shrug)

The key words you’re looking for are “track stand.” A google search on that and you’ll find all the instructions and videos you could want.

It’s said to be easier on a fixed-gear bike, since that lets you move the back wheel either way with the pedals (whereas a bike with a freewheel mechanism will only let you pedal it forwards). I agree, it’d be fun to learn! I never have.

The “should stop bicyclists stop a stop signs if there’s nobody around” questions strike me as sort of empty. The interesting question to me is “how do you know if there’s nobody around”? And the one thing I feel really strongly about is that people be on the lookout for cyclists and pedestrians, not just cars–it’s no fun stepping out into the street at a stop sign and having a cyclist woosh past your nose….