tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141703.post7588470292937958635..comments2024-02-21T17:03:05.861-08:00Comments on Petrelis Files: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08359712473083091475noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141703.post-78169772637925928632011-09-24T13:27:20.844-07:002011-09-24T13:27:20.844-07:00Bikers on Valencia frequently come from behind and...Bikers on Valencia frequently come from behind and pass -- on the right --SIGNALLING motorists making right hand turns. This is mindblowingly stupid. I am sympathetic to the need to keep one's momentum going on a bicycle. I am not sympathetic to playing with one's life in order to do so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141703.post-40440216148348773632011-07-24T16:09:33.602-07:002011-07-24T16:09:33.602-07:00hi stephen,
thanks for sharing that info. let...hi stephen, <br /><br />thanks for sharing that info. let's go over it, point by point. <br /><br />a) i am not making a left turn, or about to make one, when they pass on the right.<br /><br />b) SF streets are not highways.<br /><br />c) see above.<br /><br />d) market and valencia streets, where a lot of the right passing by bikers with me occurs, are not one way streets.<br /><br />e) see my points B and C above.<br /><br />i don't think the law you've sited addressed the situation i am too often faced with bikers passing on the right on two-way streets that are not highways and when i'm not making a left.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08359712473083091475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141703.post-88080963892019025032011-07-24T11:00:25.108-07:002011-07-24T11:00:25.108-07:00No offense intended, but the "unwritten rule&...No offense intended, but the "unwritten rule" about passing on the right is superseded by the written rule on doing so. California Vehicle Code ยง21754 reads:<br /><br />Passing on the Right<br /><br />21754. The driver of a ( ) vehicle may overtake and pass to the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions:<br /><br />(a) When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn.<br /><br />(b) Upon a highway within a business or residence district with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width for two or more lines of moving vehicles in the direction of travel.<br /><br />(c) Upon any highway outside of a business or residence district with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width and clearly marked for two or more lines of moving traffic in the direction of travel.<br /><br />(d) Upon a one-way street.<br /><br />(e) Upon a highway divided into two roadways where traffic is restricted to one direction upon each of such roadways.<br /><br />The provisions of this section shall not relieve the driver of a slow moving vehicle from the duty to drive as closely as practicable to the right hand edge of the roadway.<br /><br />A bicycle counts as a vehicle. Thus, the other bikers may not be aware of an unwritten rule of your own making and are simply following the actual rules of the road.Stephen R. Stapleton, Sacramento, CAnoreply@blogger.com