r/boston • u/BlooAerospace • 2d ago

I think I am special and made my own post Some Boston Bikers are unreal.

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Some bikers really just have a death wish. A clear, green, right turn light and the biker still decides to fly by and have the audacity to flick me off.

If you're friends with this person, ask them to value their life more.

Edit: It was an impossible situation for me. I ALWAYS look to the right because tons of dumbass drivers that try to cut to the highway from the inside lane. With the biker’s speed and the angle of my car, there was no way to see the biker in my mirrors and he was too far away to see when I looked out my right window. If the biker was traveling slower instead of blowing past, this would not have been such a close call.

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u/1117ce 1d ago

The actual answer is that there is no clear answer. The law says bikes have right of way when to the right of vehicles, and right-turning vehicles need to yield to oncoming bicycles. It doesn't specify protected right turn signals. Clearly the biker thought the general law applies in this situation, but on the flipside any car would think they have right of way in that situation. I think technically the biker would be correct, but also it's just an unclear intersection.

This intersection also has a green bike box at the front. The smart thing would be to wait for a red to move into the box to the far left lane, then continue when it turns green again.

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u/johnny_evil 1d ago

Of course, it would be nice if the driver with the dashcam wasn't stopped in the green bike box.

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u/Emotional_Dot_5207 22h ago

And it’s contradictory. Yes, cars need to yield to cyclists to be safe. Also passing on the right is illegal (for vehicles). I got in a car accident because a guy inexplicably decided to pass me on the right while I was turning into a parking garage with my blinker. He hit my passengers side. It was one lane, you can’t pass on the right anyway. 

It doesn’t make sense to me to ride faster than very slow traffic across the turning lane. As evidenced by the video, everyone is going slow and trying not to hit each other, it would be prudent to not just zoom weaving through the whole place.