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Re:A Type of Road Junction that Kills Cyclists by kqr on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:29AM (#16113908)
That is one of the things that annoy me most about new bike lanes. Why do they put them on the left side of left turn lanes!?? Look, we have had lanes for traffic like a century now. It shouldn't be hard. They just have ti do what they always did!

(Also the stupid unsafe cycling advice of staying to the left. Take the lane and take the correct lane, please.)

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Re:A Type of Road Junction that Kills Cyclists by rorykoehler on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @07:30AM (#16114449)
Many cars drivers have a habit of accelerating to get around cyclists as they are both coming to the junction where the car wants to turn left using the left turn only lane and the bike wants to go straight. I get cutoff at least once a month in this way. Very scary and usually the car drivers are oblivious to how dangerous their driving is.
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Re:A Type of Road Junction that Kills Cyclists by maurits on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:59AM (#16114042)
If the bike lane must be next to a turn lane on an intersection, the dutch have a very simple hack [1].

All bike lanes get green, and get to sort themselves out, but crucially all car lanes get red.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/VFElf

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