In ex-soviet countries, cyclists are not allowed to be on a highway, nor can they turn left* ***
*unless it’s a single lane road, as cyclists are required to be in rightmost part of rightmost lane at all times**, and they cant legally turn left from any lane other than left-most, where they cannot be
**unless it’s a third turn right only lane sprawling off existing 2-lane road, in which case they are allowed to stay in the middle lane
*** they can kinda turn left by going forward on an intersection, but stopping at a corner, turning in place, an pretend they came from the road to the right****
***** None of this matters, though, anyway, as half the riders dont give a shit, and the other drives on the LEFTMOST part of the road, right into incomming traffic, as they think seeing incoming cars somehow makes them safer
Cycles are not allowed on highways. Neither are left turns for that matter.
What do you mean? Left turns are absolutely allowed on highways. Depending on the state, the definition of a highway involves traffic lights.
A lot of folks use the term highway to mean interstate highway or elevated or separated highway, where bikes and pedestrians are prohibited.
I usually use the word freeway for those types of roads, but that shouldn’t include tollways which usually also prohibit bikes and pedestrians.
We’ve always called it the interstate where I’m from. Highways are like like your two lane State roads. Then you got like your county County country roads.
Technically highways are any road that driving a motorized vehicle on requires a registration, license etc. basically any public road.
What does the state of the highway have to do with traffic lights? Are the ones in need of repair have less traffic lights?
What the fuck. Oh well, in civilized countries at least.
I’ve checked several European states and china and each one of them has traffic lights on highways. I think there might be a misunderstanding. Freeways lack traffic lights, highways move slightly slower and can have traffic lights
Oh, I see, I am referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled-access_highway I guess you are not.
Yeah, let’s tread carefully around vaguely-defined English words in an international community.
My country’s State Highway system only has motorways like that for about 350 out of 11,000 km.
thats not very good for safety
Yeah our road deaths per capita are a wee bit worse than the European average (the lack of trains definitely doesn’t help) but our roads are statistically a fair bit safer than countries like the USA that build a lot of huge motorways!
I drive a truck all over the place for a living and Cars are more dangerous and more inconvenient than any bike I’ve ever come across.
Why would you need a gun against a cyclist when you’re driving a 2-ton death machine?
Because it’s funnier and more unhinged
It’s not about needing it, it’s their biggest fantasy to use it on progressives and other people they hate
And what about progressive gun owners? What’s their biggest fantasy? Since you seem so god dammed smart.
Well since I am a progressive gun owner I can tell you for certain my biggest fantasy is never having to need to use it because we improve society so much no one is desperate and dumb enough to threaten my family
Naw, man, these guys park their Escalades in their bedroom just waiting for a burglar to break in.
A comic where everyone is wrong.
Cyclists (myself included) if you’re sharing the road, follow traffic laws. Cars drivers (including myself) there is no need whatsoever to escalate a situation like this.
The cyclist is following traffic laws and is taking the lane and signalling a turn. It’s typically car-brained to think anything impeding the movement of a motor vehicle is breaking the law.
Not in a highway. There’s no bike lane on a highway.
We have signs explicitly saying “no bikes, carriages, horse on highway” at the on-ramps, here.
Depending on the highway, the cyclist is fine. Considering they’re taking a left turn it is likely a 2 lane highway, where cyclists are allowed, and that cyclist is following the road rules, even signalling their turn.
Nah. The minimum speed limit on a highway is generally 40 MPH. I’ve never seen a bike go that fast except maybe downhill or possibly a racing bike. Most people go a max of 20 MPH.
What does the speed a cyclist can travel have to do with legality?
It’s illegal to drive significantly slower than the free flow of traffic. Your vehicle becomes an obstacle under these conditions.
I kinda like looking up laws, so I just double checked and, in Washington state at least, it’s completely legal to ride a bicycle on highways. The impeding of traffic law (RCW 46.61.425) is limited to motor vehicles. RCW 46.61.770 states that bicycles traveling slower than the speed of traffic should ride to the right, setting a legal precedent for bicycles traveling slowly on the road. It even has an exception for riding to the right if you’re turning left, as the cyclist in the OP is doing.
Not sure where all of the cyclist hate is coming from. Living in rural areas and traveling many 2 lane highways on road trips, it isn’t uncommon where I am to see cyclists.
(1) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law: PROVIDED, That a person following a vehicle driving at less than the legal maximum speed and desiring to pass such vehicle may exceed the speed limit, subject to the provisions of RCW 46.61.120 on highways having only one lane of traffic in each direction, at only such a speed and for only such a distance as is necessary to complete the pass with a reasonable margin of safety.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.425
Here’s my problem with what you say according to WA state law.
A bicycle can’t travel with the flow of traffic at a normal rate of speed or posted speed limit for a single lane highway. This means that a driver would be required to safety pass them. You are required by law to give them a minimum of 3 foot of passing space which isn’t necessarily possible if they are travelling in the lane in front of you on a two lane highway (especially in no passing zones) but it’s still illegal to impede the flow of traffic.
You can be ticketed for impeding the flow of traffic on a highway. There’s also no way to really yield to allow other drivers to pass said slow moving vehicle.
Your quick search also ignores that local laws are allowed to further curtail such use by bicycles and to enact further laws to provide minimum speed limits.
When you add to this that interstate highways very often have minimum speed limits I have a lot for questions about how legal such a thing would hold up in court.
I personally (as someone who does cycle) would never attempt to ride a bicycle on a highway.
