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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know why people keep saying that no one uses the bike lanes.  I walk every day from Farragut north to McPherson and see lots of people using the north/south bike lanes that cross K.  The other day I was irritated because there was a man waiting to cross the street and he was standing off the curb right in the bike lane.  The biker, who has the right of way and green light, rang her bell at him repeatedly but he was oblivious, and she needed to swerve into the traffic lane to avoid him.  People are so rude.  Of course he was on his phone.[/quote]

Pedestrians actually always have right of way, even in the bike lane. It’s rude to stand in it, and I’m always happy to roll my eyes at people who do that as I swerve my bike into the street to avoid them, but that’s the law. [/quote]

That can’t be right.  As a pedestrian, I can just stand in the middle of the road blocking traffic that has a green light and I have the right of way?  I don’t think that’s true.  Maybe I didn’t explain it well but we had a red light/no crossing — he had stepped off the curb and was standing in the roadway, in the bike lane, blocking a cyclist that had a green light and was coming up the road.  If I did that and was hit by a car, they would say I was jaywalking, not that I had the right of way.  [/quote]

Maybe you’re right? I don’t know, I just always assume when I’m on my bike or in my car that pedestrians always have right of way. I do not assume that when I’m a pedestrian because I don’t want to get hit. [/quote]

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