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Bicycle trap
The San Diego County Bicycle Coalition offers free safety classes every month in Oceanside. They will teach you to drive your bicycle defensively to maximize your visibility, predictability and clearances. Trying to stay out of the way doesn't work. It mostly just helps set up most crashes. The margins are no place to be.— April 19, 2015 7 p.m.
Bicycle trap
Some bicyclists do clean up paths and bike lanes. The thing is, bike lanes benefit motorists more than bicyclists by getting bicyclists out of their way. Just try riding a bike outside a bike lane sometime and notice the exaggerated histrionics from people who can't believe that a bicyclist is making them change lanes, as if that was a terrible hardship.— April 19, 2015 6:58 p.m.
Bicycle trap
The San Diego County Bicycle Coalition offers free classes in Oceanside every month. You can ride safely when you know how. Bicyclists have as much right to the road as motorists do. That's the law, CVC 21200(a).— April 19, 2015 6:56 p.m.
Stay away from PB
While I am not a fan of Critical Mass, it happens on one Friday evening a month. It's hardly representative of road conditions in general. Today I was harassed by no less than 3 different motorists who were angry that I was using the full lane on roads that had multiple lanes. Apparently these ignorant childish self entitled idiots think that the left lane has cooties. What exactly is so horrible about using the left lane to pass a bicyclist safely? In each case, there were conditions which satisfied the exceptions to the keep right rule as specified in CVC 21202(a)(3) or (a)(4) or 21208(a)(3) or (a)(4) or some combination of more than one of those. Bicyclists actually do have a right to travel on the public roads. I know that's difficult to understand for people who are too lazy to read the law or too illiterate to understand it but it is a fact, nevertheless.— March 30, 2014 2:16 a.m.
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@ReaganSD: Your gas taxes go mostly to state and federal highways. Little if any fuel taxes pay for Garnet or Cass. Most of the money for local roads like Garnet and Cass comes from sales and property taxes. Maybe you should try doing your research before making unsubstantiated claims about your presumed ownership of the road. You don't own the road and you don't pay significantly more for it than bicyclists. Many people use bicycles as a primary form of transportation. You're just making childish excuses to rationalize your childish delusion that you own the road. You don't own the road. Grow up.— March 29, 2014 2:37 a.m.
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The "ordinance" would be San Diego Municipal Code §84.09 which prohibits riding bicycles on sidewalks in front of businesses. The three foot passing law will be California state law, CVC 21760, but it does not go into effect until September 16, 2014. Right now, CVC 21750 requires maintaining safe distance when passing bicyclists but does not define what "safe distance" means. Unfortunately, there are too many sociopaths who seem to think that anything that doesn't involve actual contact qualifies as safe distance.— March 26, 2014 6:13 p.m.
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You are not being held hostage. You can still get where you are going. Is there some reason you can't use Grand instead? I generally prefer Grand to Garnet even during off peak periods but definitely during peak periods. Nobody asked you to ride a bike 30 miles to work. That's well into the realm of hard core and very few are willing to put in the time and effort to bike commute that far on a regular basis. Why do you think that anyone is asking you to bike commute 30 miles? The streets are also for bicycles and they have been for 150 years. That's longer than cars have existed. Why do you feel so threatened by bicycles?— March 26, 2014 6:07 p.m.
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It's funny how some people seem to think that "share the road" means that bicyclists have to stay out of their way. In other words, in their view, bicyclists are only allowed to use the road if they can keep up with traffic. Otherwise, they don't get to use the road. That's no sharing under any definition that I am aware of. The vast overwhelming majority of the time, the only thing that you have to do is move over to pass. If you think that you are being impeded when you can move over to pass, then again, you need to consult your favorite dictionary and learn what the word "impede" means. BTW, the courts have repeatedly found that faster traffic is not being impeded when it can move over to pass slower traffic. I know that changing lanes is challenging for some people, but those people shouldn't be driving. Changing lanes is a basic driving skill that's required for all drivers. When I'm driving, I rarely have to slow down for bicyclists. Usually the most I have to deal with is just moving over to pass. On the rare occasions that I have to slow down, it's usually just for a few seconds. I've never been slowed down for more than about a minute by bicyclists. Motorists, on the other hand, slow me down every single time that I drive. They even slow me down when I'm riding my bike. I do follow the rules of the road. Unlike most motorists, I even signal turns and lane changes consistently. Unlike the majority of motorists, I obey the speed limit. Unlike most motorists I yield to pedestrians at all marked and unmarked crosswalks even if there isn't a stop sign or red light to go with that crosswalk. You need to get over the childish delusions that the roads are your exclusive territory and that bicyclists have to stay out of your way. You move over to pass absolutely all other slow traffic on the road that isn't bicycles. Why do you think it's different when it's a bicycle?— March 26, 2014 10:37 a.m.
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Even without bicycles, traffic has always been slow on Garnet; at least it has been since 1986 when I moved here from Orange County. I never cease to be amazed by the drama queens who pretend that they are so terribly victimized by having to share the road with bicycles. Of all the things that slow me down on the road, bicycles are by far the least of my problems. Grow up and learn how to share the road. It's not difficult and it's not a great hardship to maintain safe passing distance or slow down and wait until you can. You would do it for a bus. You would do it for a garbage truck. You would do it for a cement truck. You can do it for a bicyclist.— March 25, 2014 9:45 p.m.
Following Fatal Hit and Run, Cyclists Gather for Improved Infrastructure
The ones without the stripe are not bike lanes. They are traffic lanes with shared lane markers, which are a bike symbol with a chevron arrow. They are commonly called "sharrows" and their purpose is to inform people that bicyclists have the right to use the full lane in the lanes where they are placed. Note that they do not grant that right. They merely inform people that it exists. It existed before the sharrow markers were put in, usually because the lanes are unsafe for bicyclists to keep far right.— April 5, 2012 12:18 a.m.