On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/22/11 9:17 PM, Anthony wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Richard Welty<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> i think they should be tagged differently. >>> >>> if there's just a black on yellow sign saying "share the road" then >>> cyclists >>> should stay to the right. >> >> Only if the outside lane is about 14 feet wide or wider, and has no >> parking to the right of it (i.e. not very often). >> > that's not what's actually in the law, at least in NYS
I can't speak for every jurisdiction, but here in Florida there is an exception for: "When reasonably necessary to avoid any condition, including, but not limited to, a fixed or moving object, parked or moving vehicle, bicycle, pedestrian, animal, surface hazard, or substandard-width lane, that makes it unsafe to continue along the right-hand curb or edge. For the purposes of this subsection, a “substandard-width lane” is a lane that is too narrow for a bicycle and another vehicle to travel safely side by side within the lane." The NY statute does say "except [...] when reasonably necessary to avoid conditions that would make it unsafe to continue along near the right-hand curb or edge", which I'd personally interpret to include travelling in a substandard-width lane (but IANALTINLA). _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
