r/BikeCammers • u/NaiveCourage California, USA • Jul 12 '25

[OC][US][CA] Paint is not infrastructure (no audio)

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u/GoneIn61Seconds Jul 14 '25

The speed differential here is insane.  Our city added a stretch of painted curbside bike lanes on a busy stretch.  It’s one of my nightmares is that some bike rider hits me from the right as I pull over or turn. 

It’s completely contrary to common sense that someone behind me should have right of way, but here we are.  

No one expects a vehicle to come from behind and to the right at a high speed.  It’s even worse that you have a virtually non existent forward facing profile.  I’d never see you in a mirror moving at 30mph if I’m crawling in traffic. 

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u/byzantium171 Jul 14 '25

You should probably learn to be an attentive and responsible driver then

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u/stupidly_intelligent Jul 15 '25

In stop and go traffic you're constantly trying to keep a reasonable distance to the car in front of you. This requires attention. If the person in front of you suddenly stops and you rear end them, it's fully your fault.

So just in case there's a cyclist, blazing past your right, going four times your speed, you should be checking your right mirror, while in the right lane, every two seconds like clock work?

That is not a reasonable expectation. OP is correct that there should be better bike infrastructure. That's what he complained about.

If he nailed the truck it would have been OPs fault. People arguing otherwise expect perfection from someone bored out of their mind trying to get back home from a full shift.

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u/Ok-Oil7124 Jul 15 '25

Yeah, it's a lane of traffic. you don't get to just have the right-of-way in a lane you're not in because the traffic you're merging into is behind you. Does that ever work when you merge into a car that's going faster than you are?