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From: [email protected] (Wm. L. Ranck)
Subject: Re: BDI Experience
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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Kent D. Polk ([email protected]) wrote:
: Also watch your mirrors any time you are turning. I just had another close
: one last night. Preparing for a right turn on a two lane road. Right turn
: signals on, starting the turn, and this lady behind me hits the throttle and
: starts to pass me on the RIGHT. This has happened to me twice before. the
I have had this happen to me often enough that I always look for it.
On my ride to work in the morning I come to a stop light where there are
3 lanes in my direction. One for left turns, one for straight through, and
one for right turns. All clearly marked. Plus there is a clearly marked
bicycle lane. I ride into the right turn lane with my signal on and stop at
the stop line. Looking left to see if I can make a "right turn on red" and
when I start to move discovered that some idiot has pulled into the bike
lane and is trying to pass me on the right. GRRR.
I always do a head check on bike lanes. Not always for bicycles. . .
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* Bill Ranck (703) 231-9503 [email protected] *
* Computing Center, Virginia Polytchnic Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. *
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