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Yes, but the DOT allows and promotes left of center riding in the outside lane if there is no bike lane. The same way your supposed to assume the lane at every turning lane along roadside protected bike path.
Actually, it's more dangerous to get pushed into the side of traffic then to assume the lane. When driving if you see a bicyclists directly in front of you, most people will slow down and pass when safe. That bicyclist is predictable/visible, he has assumed a lane. If a bicyclists assumes the door zone (also the trash and pothole zone), if they do get doored, under the wheel they go. Combine that with an erratic driver and it's no wonder he tried to get into the safest position, which was directly in front.
You know he can go down another street... its a bicycle not a car much easier to maneuver. The safest position is to wait and let the car pass or go another route.
You know he can go down another street... its a bicycle not a car much easier to maneuver. The safest position is to wait and let the car pass or go another route.
Or the cyclist could have just stopped for 60 seconds and the van would have been at least two blocks away by then.
Wallabout St is a two way street between Lee and Kent Ave. A few blocks more and the cyclist would've been riding in the opposite direction of the flow of traffic. He could have used Flushing Ave one block away which is the more direct street from Brooklyn to Queens and is two way all the way.
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