It’s superficially convincing but if it was true you wouldn’t need an infographic. Drivers would notice for themselves that it’s better for them. In practice it’s easy to overtake cyclists in a line and impossible to overtake them side-by-side. I’ve never overtaken side-by-side cyclists in my life, when that happens you’re stuck behind them until they make a turn.
What actually happens is, like the footnote says, cyclists doing this take up the whole lane, they don’t tuck in like image 4, so point 3 and 4 are both false.
3 is wrong because having enough time to pull to the center doesn’t mean you have enough time to pull fully into the other lane and back. A safe overtake is made impossible because the required time is longer.
4 is wrong because with cyclists across the lane you get just as close to them when fully in the other lane as in image 1, and it’s just as dangerous as in-lane overtaking.
5 is just dumb. Both groups take the same time to overtake because of the extra time taken to pull over, and you have way more opportunities to straddle overtake, not to mention the side-by-side groups blocking visibility reducing opportunities even further.
I commute by bike every day and don’t own a car, I will fully block lanes when I don’t want to be overtaken, but I still think this is annoying selfish behavior.
It’s superficially convincing but if it was true you wouldn’t need an infographic. Drivers would notice for themselves that it’s better for them. In practice it’s easy to overtake cyclists in a line and impossible to overtake them side-by-side. I’ve never overtaken side-by-side cyclists in my life, when that happens you’re stuck behind them until they make a turn.
What actually happens is, like the footnote says, cyclists doing this take up the whole lane, they don’t tuck in like image 4, so point 3 and 4 are both false.
3 is wrong because having enough time to pull to the center doesn’t mean you have enough time to pull fully into the other lane and back. A safe overtake is made impossible because the required time is longer.
4 is wrong because with cyclists across the lane you get just as close to them when fully in the other lane as in image 1, and it’s just as dangerous as in-lane overtaking.
5 is just dumb. Both groups take the same time to overtake because of the extra time taken to pull over, and you have way more opportunities to straddle overtake, not to mention the side-by-side groups blocking visibility reducing opportunities even further.
I commute by bike every day and don’t own a car, I will fully block lanes when I don’t want to be overtaken, but I still think this is annoying selfish behavior.
That’s a shit argument.