Originally Posted by
Lemond1985
Sounds like you did the best you could. Sometimes, through no fault of your own, you get caught between a bus breaking the law and a car breaking the law (or caught between the moon and New York City, but I digress). You just have to improvise. Sounds like you got through it OK. A real life Mentos Moment, in the parlance of the day.
FWIW, I despise bike lanes, almost completely ignore them, and just ride where it's safest, which is hardly ever where the drooling bureaucrat who "designed" the bike lane would like me to be.
Common sense should always take precedence over painted lines, I look at them more as "suggestions for people on bikes who don't know any better". I'm not about to become a greasy spot in the road because I expected magical green road markings to save me.
Ah yes, "common sense" and the typical distracted motorist... yup, works every time.
And yet the response of most "common sense" motorists, toward cyclists using the road... "Get off the road!"