Mike's comment about waiting for the light to cross Regent reminded me of my perennial dilemma.
> 3. I too saw THAT Guy eastbound on the south side of the intersection > of Monroe and Regent last night. As I waited on the sidewalk in front > of the new hotel for the light to change so I could cross Regent, ... When traveling east on the Missing Link, should I (1) completely cross the crosswalk across Monroe, then wait on the sidewalk for the walk light to cross Regent? or (2) cross only partway, stopping in the rightmost next to hotel) lane of Monroe and waiting for the green light to cross? Pro of (1) is that's what people expect you to do, but con is that motorists who don't know the intersection (or who know it but still pretend there aren't cyclists and peds there) have a tendency to turn a right directly into all the folks in the crosswalk that crosses Regent. Pro of (2) is that one is much less likely to be "invisible" to right-turning motorists, con is that they may give you unkind looks and wonder what you're doing there. (Last week, I was forced to do #2 by a motorist who was blocking the crosswalk with his car - had no option of making it over to the other sidewalk. He didn't have his right turn signal and, when the light turned green, moved as if to to pass me on my right to go straight across Regent, which caused me to scream "Don't hit me" which caused his passenger to say - if I read lips as well as I think I do - "Ohmigod whatthef--k") Both options are legal, as far as I can figure out, which isn't saying much. Really, I preferred the intersection this summer when there was no sidewalk there. Then (1) wasn't a choice and when I did (2), I surprised no one. Kathryn Kingsbury www.kathrynkingsbury.com On LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynkingsbury
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