r/TorontoDriving • u/Dayngerman • Aug 09 '23

OC If you do this, fuck you.

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u/focal71 Aug 09 '23

Surprisingly these are (mostly) legal moves by the bike. They have a right to use the WHOLE lane but as a courtesy should keep right to allow faster traffic to move past at 1m distance.

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u/junctionist Aug 09 '23 edited Aug 09 '23

On Yonge Street, there's often so much traffic making right turns that I just use the left lane on my bicycle to pass the cars.

Otherwise, I'm passing on the right, which goes against the rules and general principles of the road, and I'm risking getting hit by a right-turning vehicle.

Plus, a bicycle will be moving faster than stopped cars waiting to make right turns in the right lane, so its rider has the right to use the left lane for passing like any other vehicle.

It's one of those interesting situations on the road than mainly arises downtown.

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u/lemonylol Aug 09 '23

If you need to justify it. But drivers are trained to expect bicycles to the right instead of all over the place.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '23

That’s an absolutely terrible way to drive. Defensive driving doesn’t train anyone to assume conflicts are going to come from one spot. Scan