10-06-2015, 09:55 PM
(10-06-2015, 09:14 PM)Canard Wrote: No, I still don't support it. It's like allowing someone to text behind the wheel, "just because nobody else is around". It's still unsafe. When I'm driving my Prius in EV mode, cyclists don't hear me coming up behind them and won't move over.
However much you don't like sharing the road with cyclists, a potential inconvenience (cyclists riding side-by-side) is still not at all like an extremely dangerous behaviour (distracted driving).
It's only streets with substantial traffic on which this can be more than a very minor inconvenience, and on those streets cyclists have a responsibility under the HTA to move over where safe so as not to impede traffic. You can be sure that cyclists are well aware of how busy a street is.