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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who used to not own a car and exclusively bike everywhere, but now has to drive most places, I have been on both sides of this scenario. When cycling you must presume the car does not see you. If a car has a right turn signal on, I’d never roll up on its right side. Some people in this city bike like they have a death wish. Right of way or not you’ll never win the contest of human body vs huge chunk of metal.  The folks on scooters definitely have a death wish, and 95% of drivers in the city drive like absolute psychopaths. 
The infrastructure is set up to fail and frustrate pretty much everyone. Some of the places they’ve put new crosswalks and bike lanes in my neighborhood blow my mind. They clearly didn’t ever actually USE these proposed paths or take into consideration the challenges they’d face (blind curves, one ways that result in drivers looking only left to turn while the crosswalk being to the right), bike lanes ending and asking the cyclist to jut out across a lane of traffic to continue, etc.

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Agree. The bike rider made a dangerous assumption that you would see them. Thankfully you were going slowly and you did, so remember the scenario and look carefully to your right as well as left.[/quote]

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