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RE: Santa Rosa Press article: Comment on CHP "Sound Bite"
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Daniel Connelly
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Apr 21, 2004 14:40 PDT
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Eric Walter Larkin wrote:
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of
California Vehicle Code 21202. Road hazards includes substandard width
lanes. One other allowance to leave the right hand side of a lane is
where
right hand turns are authorized.
Here's the full text of CVC 21202:
21202. (a) Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at a speed
less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction
at that time shall ride as close as practicable to the right-hand
curb or edge of the roadway except under any of the following
situations:
(1) When overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle
proceeding in the same direction.
(2) When preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a
private road or driveway.
(3) When reasonably necessary to avoid conditions (including, but
not limited to, fixed or moving objects, vehicles, bicycles,
pedestrians, animals, surface hazards, or substandard width lanes)
that make it unsafe to continue along the right-hand curb or edge,
subject to the provisions of Section 21656. For purposes of this
section, a "substandard width lane" is a lane that is too narrow for
a bicycle and a vehicle to travel safely side by side within the
lane.
(4) When approaching a place where a right turn is authorized.
(b) Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway of a highway,
which highway carries traffic in one direction only and has two or
more marked traffic lanes, may ride as near the left-hand curb or
edge of that roadway as practicable.
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The persistent misrepresentation of Code is the reason the loss
of AB1408 (I think I have the number correct) is so tragic.
Dan
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