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That sounds like an extremely dangerous law... In bike-crowded cities you will never be able to take a safe right-turn that way.

• KozmoNau7 9y ago
  You simply wait for a gap in the flow of bikes, and pull all the way to the curb, so there's no gap. Then you only really have to worry about the bikes in front of you, and any pedestrians in the crossing.
  • brewdad 9y ago
    Portland gets this wrong in every possible way. First, drivers turning right must yield to bikes in the bike lane passing on the right (not unreasonable IMO). However, state law also makes it illegal to pull into the bike lane and establish a position to turn right. Add in pedestrians and it's almost impossible to make a right turn on some roads at rush hour. For some reason, we seem to have a lot of car/bike/ped conflicts.
    • PeterisP 9y ago
      Around here it's generally solved by having separate traffic lights for cars, pedestrians and the bike lane, and having some extra time every cycle of lights where it's red for bikes and pedestrians but green for cars to enable those turns. E.g. this shot in google maps - https://www.google.lv/maps/@56.9578862,24.1189538,3a,75y,240.71h,80.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYmaAm_NRILmSMT_RDsNkrA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.lv/maps/@56.9578862,24.1189538,3a,75y,240... ; it's green for cars, but red for the bike lane on the right side.