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Originally Posted by JustAnotherGuy
The Alberta Traffic Safety Act defines the bicycle as a vehicle. When traveling on the road, cyclists have all of the same rights and responsibilities as a motor vehicle. To operate safely in traffic, all road users including cyclists, must obey the same road rules.
For example, as a vehicle a cyclist must yield to pedestrians, stop at stop signs, and travel with the flow of traffic. Conversely, motorists should not give cyclists the right-of-way at crosswalks unless they are walking their bicycle. When you walk your bike you are a pedestrian. When you ride your bicycle you are a vehicle.
Bicycles are legally permitted on all Calgary roads except:
• Deerfoot Trail from 64 Avenue North to Marquis of Lorne Trail in the South.
• Stephen Avenue Mall (8 Avenue SW) from 1 Street East to 3 Street West from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Generally bicycles travel slower than other vehicles. Based on this assumption it is important to remember the following general road rules:
• Slower traffic stays right.
• Slower traffic must give way to faster traffic when safe and practical.
That is what I am saying. If the guy is slowing up traffic on a road that is difficult to pass then he should go with a plan B. I understand he has a right to be there and to drive slow and all that. But on a practical sense it is not the best idea.
This combined with me passing him once and then me waiting at a light and have up ride by me as I wait and then I have to pass him again that is still fine. But if there is a third light and I see he is coming along I will stop to the right and not give him a lane to pass me. Simple as that. Call me what you want. But that is how I see it.
This topic is been talked to death. Respond if you wish. I am done.
Not don't whine about me being controlling and saying when the conversation is ended. I am just tired of the topic.
Go Boston Go.
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I'm not calling you anything.
I just think it's a little hypocritical that you want to be able to swerve around around slower moving cyclists on narrow streets, but you don't want them to be able to pass you while you're stopped.
If a cyclist should be confined to a full lane like a motor vehicle and not allowed to cut to the front of a line when there's room in the curb lane, the cyclist should also be treated like a motor vehicle when you're driving behind him in a narrow street ie. you don't pull into the oncoming lane and speed past him; you wait until you have a passing lane.
"why should this guy on a bike get to cut to the front of the line when everyone else has to wait their turn?! He should be in line just like every other vehicle!" "god this guy on the bike is taking up an entire lane and going slow, why doesn't he move over so I can go past!?"
If you want to cyclists to have to follow
all the rules of the road like a motor vehicle, you have to treat him that way. Not just when it's convenient.