I drive to work along a long country road. The road is the link between two towns about 12 miles apart.
For the purposes of clarity, although not relevant to my question there is a cycle path along a disused railway that runs more or less parallel to the road along its entire length.
The road is very busy and fast but bendy with hidden dips. There are only two places where one can safely overtake, and during busy periods is it highly unlikely you can overtake at all. About one third along this road there is a junction controlled with traffic lights.
When there is a cyclist on the road it is clearly very difficult to safely pass, given that you should allow a cyclist as much room when overtaking as a car. So we drivers inch along behind the cyclist and every mile or so the first car manages to pass.
Then when we get to the junction, the four cars that have managed to overtake are stopped at the red light, and the cyclist passes the lot of them on the left, takes up position at the front of the queue, and when the lights change we resume our slow journey, and dice with death overtaking moves behind them.
AIBU to expect the cyclist to maintain their position in the queue of traffic?
Is there a reason they need to leave the junction from the white line, or could they not just hang on to their place as the fifth vehicle in the line?
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MacaroniAndWalnut · 29/11/2012 13:04
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