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<blockquote data-quote="Dana McIntosh" data-source="post: 1021594" data-attributes="member: 43309"><p>DC's Bike Lanes are to the right of the main vehicular lanes of travel, but to the left of parking lanes. </p><p></p><p>It is illegal to block a bike lane, just like it is illegal to block any other lane of vehicular travel. According to Chief Lanier, they are actively issuing tickets for blocking these lanes. However I agree that Police are not enforcing people blocking these lanes as a priority, and flagging a cop down to ask him to write a parking ticket is probably not going to make you any friends on the force. The one time I tried the response was "Im on a call", as he walked into a sandwich shop and picked up lunch. </p><p></p><p></p><p>The argument that many bicyclists ignore traffic laws, and therfore "we" can ignore laws too, makes no sense.. Lots of automobile drivers break the speed limit, does that somehow give me the right to stand in the road? In fact, blocking their legal lane of travel forces bicyclists to behave MORE erraticly.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The statement "It's all about time and making money for the shareholders." really gets to the heart of my objection to this behavior. This indicates to me that it is not simply individual drivers deciding that their personal convenience takes a higher precedence than the safety of bicyclists and other drivers (who have to accommodate the bicyclists into the main lane of travel when the bike lanes are blocked). It seems that it is a company wide policy, or culture/unwritten policy to disregard the law and the safety of others in order to save a few minutes. I don't see FedEx or USPS trucks blocking these lanes nearly as often as I do see UPS.. they seem to find legal places to park, usually at the ends of the block rather than in the middle of it, which further indicates to me that this is a policy/cultural issue within UPS and not something that is an industry-wide practice. </p><p></p><p>Is there a written policy about where it is acceptable to park? Is "Double parking" allowed? What about partially blocking an actual "car" lane? I can't imagine this is not laid out in some drivers handbook..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dana McIntosh, post: 1021594, member: 43309"] DC's Bike Lanes are to the right of the main vehicular lanes of travel, but to the left of parking lanes. It is illegal to block a bike lane, just like it is illegal to block any other lane of vehicular travel. According to Chief Lanier, they are actively issuing tickets for blocking these lanes. However I agree that Police are not enforcing people blocking these lanes as a priority, and flagging a cop down to ask him to write a parking ticket is probably not going to make you any friends on the force. The one time I tried the response was "Im on a call", as he walked into a sandwich shop and picked up lunch. The argument that many bicyclists ignore traffic laws, and therfore "we" can ignore laws too, makes no sense.. Lots of automobile drivers break the speed limit, does that somehow give me the right to stand in the road? In fact, blocking their legal lane of travel forces bicyclists to behave MORE erraticly. The statement "It's all about time and making money for the shareholders." really gets to the heart of my objection to this behavior. This indicates to me that it is not simply individual drivers deciding that their personal convenience takes a higher precedence than the safety of bicyclists and other drivers (who have to accommodate the bicyclists into the main lane of travel when the bike lanes are blocked). It seems that it is a company wide policy, or culture/unwritten policy to disregard the law and the safety of others in order to save a few minutes. I don't see FedEx or USPS trucks blocking these lanes nearly as often as I do see UPS.. they seem to find legal places to park, usually at the ends of the block rather than in the middle of it, which further indicates to me that this is a policy/cultural issue within UPS and not something that is an industry-wide practice. Is there a written policy about where it is acceptable to park? Is "Double parking" allowed? What about partially blocking an actual "car" lane? I can't imagine this is not laid out in some drivers handbook.. [/QUOTE]
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