This is a real situation that confronted me yesterday at an intersection between a secondary road and a side street with a traffic light. The question is: does a bike, in the bike lane, stop or not...and then, is so, how long?

Here's how it looked:


The reason I ask:
  • There was no solid line through the bike lane to the curb as there would be at an intersection without a bike lane
  • There was no danger presented to the bike from cars turning on from the side street
  • The light was abnormally long considering there was no traffic entering from the sidestreet


I chose to treat it as a stop sign and proceeded after I was sure there were no pedestrians or cars entering from the side street. My initial inclination was to stop and wait for green, but as I pondered the set up and the lack of a solid line, I decided to proceed.

Thoughts on this?