Quote Originally Posted by TsPoet View Post
Several times now, I've wanted to yell at cyclists from my car to get on the RIGHT side of the road or OFF the sidewalk.
Do you?
This morning I almost did it. I had my window rolled down and I was about to do it, then the light turned green and I just left hooked the idiots instead.
I wasn't sure what I was going to yell, something not too rude -"Hey, do you know you are putting all cyclists in danger by riding down the wrong side of the road like that?"
It's hard to see, but they were on the overpass, just before the Queensgate highway entrance. About 50ft down from here is a bike path that runs along the highway. I'm assuming that was their destination. Construction on Keene on the West Side of Queensgate has made it very difficult for me to ride my bike this summer, so I've been driving, precisely because I don't know a safe way of getting to this bike path (it's vague on this map, you actually have to turn down Columbia Park trail, the make a sharp left to get on it).
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=rq8...52&form=LMLTCC
But, people like them make it even more dangerous for people riding on the right side to turn left across all of this crazy rush hour traffic to get there.
I don't yell at people from my car; but if a cyclist is riding on the wrong side of the road when I am riding, I do. They put me at risk when I have to go out into traffic to get around them and you never know which way they are going to go. I try to tell them they are illegal and also unsafe, but usually the encounter is so swift that they will never get it!

Beware, all States, towns, etc., are not the same. Here in Flag, it is legal to ride the sidewalk unless it is posted. I think it is a dumb law, but others think it is great.