Originally Posted by
GhostRider62
How do you know, were you there? Were they taking the whole lane instead of single file in the shoulder? If they were riding single file, would that have mattered. You do not know and neither do I.
When a vehicle not under effective driver control crosses the entire width of the roadway from the left lane to scrape a barrier off the right side,
it makes not a bit of difference where you were riding - getting hit or not is down to random luck of if that
full-width-sweeping diagonal did or did not intersect your forward / backwards position.
Look at the other video of the cyclist playing in traffic on the bridge in Bethlehem, Pa. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Idiotic to cross that way..
You're revealing yourself to be dangerously ignorant of the most fundamental basics of how to ride a bicycle in traffic.
The Fahy Memorial Bridge is a critical crossing which has signs reminding drivers of bicycle usage -
in fact it has shared lane markings painted on the surface in the center of the right lane itself as well as the center of the only lane on those of its approach ramps which have but one.
And that's because it's long been known that if someone is going to ride there or in any other confined space that lacks width for in-lane passing, occupying a full lane is the only viable way to do it.
There is nowhere for a bicyclist to be that is out of the way of drivers - the only way it works is for the drivers to patiently wait and change lanes to pass them.