> like biking on a bike lane on a heavily trafficked road with many side streets to turn off of With the caveat that my experience is not your experience, I re

> like biking on a bike lane on a heavily trafficked road with many side streets to turn off of With the caveat that my experience is not your experience, I respectfully submit that the bike lane is poorly designed in this case and that it shouldn't be used to travel straight through the intersection in this case. I signal a lane-change to the left before the intersection and go straight through in the regular traffic lane, moving right ASAP after the intersection to not obstruct traffic. My riding is mostly dense urban where traffic is moving slowly enough to do this if I put some hustle into it. > I think it's not an either-or. I don't think that we have to throw in the towel on every effort to change behavior. I am absolutely in agreement that it's not either-or, but if cyclists are doing something that's (almost) always safe, they're a lot less likely to be killed by the untrained drivers, of which there will be many for the foreseeable future. What I do doesn't work for cyclists puttering along at 10mph (or grinding up a hill); the speed difference is too great to safely merge left. Training the drivers greatly increases the safety level for such cyclists on roads with cycle lanes between the regular lanes and the curb.