Lane Control at Freeway Ramps in Irvine California

League of American Bicyclists certified traffic cycling instructors demonstrate through movements at a freeway ramp crossing of the Irvine Center Drive overpass of Interstate 405 in the City of Irvine, California. This video is intended to show cyclists and motorists how it looks when cyclists act and are treated as vehicle drivers on a high speed road where lane changes are necessary to avoid bike lanes to the right of right turn only lanes, as well as avoiding the right turn only lanes during the course of through movements. Traffic cycling skills of the type shown are taught by the League of American Bicyclists, in the Smart Cycling program. You can find instructors and classes in your state at the education area of the League website: http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/education/course_schedule.php

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Lane
• Control
• Bicycle
• Safety
• Bike
• Freeway
• Ramp
• Irvine
• CA

[skoockum]

excellent display of how to suck every last bit of joy out of riding a bike... it looks more like the dreariest parts of accounting and actuarial work combined than any sort of cycling I've seen before.

[CyclistLorax]

@skoockum - So avoiding conflicts and and reducing crash risk "sucks joy"? So I take it your concept of joy is something like masochism, right? Now about the sucking part, how is it that us demonstrating best practices, is sucking anyone's joy? Seriously. Your concept is so screwed up, that it should be rather amusing to read your elaboration of the subject.

[skoockum]

@CyclistLorax oh.. you musta mowed the whole north 40 to build that straw scarecrow.... it's been my experience that biking is a eye opening blast, but you somehow manage to drag it down into bland, gray, dreary, drab, wretched, beige, limp, somber, penitent, lifesucking, funereal dirge of humdrummery.

[CyclistLorax]

@skoockum - Mowed the whole north forty? Do you also think in plattitudes? You appear to be complianing about your aesthetic experience. Frankly, I don't care if you don't get a dopamine rush by following best practices; that's your problem, and is not relevant to the efficacy of the material. And you seem to be repeating the same tired, uniformative, sophomoric, inane, boring, close-minded, tedious, immature, lame, egocentric, neurotic, whiny, drivel from your first complaint. We're done.

[spokehead909]

What do you do on 2 lane roads (not multilane) where the traffic does not have an extra lane to get into to pass you? What do you do as traffic backs up behind you on these 2 lane roads?

[CyclistLorax]

It depends on the road configuration. On rural roads with shoulders, I will typically use an available shoulder. if there is no shoulder, I'll control the lane until it is safe for me to move over to allow passing. Though CA law allows up to 4 drivers to be delayed (CVC 21656), I usually move over for the first overtaking driver, if it is safe to do so. Cyclist safety takes precedence over overtaking driver convenience.

[CyclistLorax]

@jeries29 - Bicyclists operating in travel lanes and motorists queuing or making lane changes to pass is the normal and reasonable movement of traffic. It's clear that you have a prejudice against bicycle driving. The video clearly shows that we were not "in harms way", because motorists know what to do when they encounter any driver moving more slowly than they would like to proceed. They either wait behind, usually because they need to make a right turn, or simply change lanes to pass.

[nnmscwrd]

Good idea!

[fhussain44]

The more I commute, the more I realize that always taking the lane is the safest way to cycle. It leads to the least problems with drivers and is consistent and simple to follow. Of course if you want to be treated like a vehicle then you need to equip your bike with powerful lights ( not those cheapie blinkys ), mirror, loud horn ( I use Airzound ) etc.

[CyclistLorax]

First part is towards the spectrum, second part is going away.  - Brian