[SDCBC] Del Mar Blvd/Jimmy Durante Merge.

[Serge Issakov]

That's a good point, Trevor.   Perhaps that sign has value to bicyclists as
a reminder that we're supposed to yield to traffic merging from Jimmy
Durante before we merge across the rightmost lane to get into the shoulder
bike lane.  I still bristle when I see it because it singles out bicyclists
and seems to assume we are likely to not act properly.  But is this a sign
we really want to oppose?

Serge

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:51 AM, <trevorspoke at cox.net> wrote:

> I see many cyclists make this crossing of the lane as if they were riding
> across a crosswalk. The sign is exactly correct that if you are crossing
> someone else's lane you must yield.
>
> However, the proper way to flow in this traffic engineering situation is
> to keep left so that you are in the left lane, or at least between the two
> logical lanes, until they finish their merge. It's the right lane that
> disappears, the through lane has the right of way. So take the right lane
> position only when there is no possible room for a vehicle on your right.
>
> Most cyclists, especially in large groups, or in busy Del Mar traffic
> (which is frequent) compound their error of merging too far right by staying
> right far too long. There's a right-turn-only lane at 15th street, and
> that's no place for the cyclist. If you can't be in front of the line,
> splitting the lanes is safest, making your may right again as you go through
> the intersection. Of course you then have to say out of the door zone for
> several more blocks anyway.
>
> -- Trevor
>
> ---- Robert Leone <rob_leone at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Dear SDCBCers:
> >       Hello! I recall there had been a petition to ask the City of Del
> Mar to
> > do something about the coastal road southbound where there's that sudden
> > merge from the right with Jimmy Durante Blvd.
> >       On yesterday's ride (Fern Kissel's "Sea Level Century," by the
> way, if
> > you're reading this, thanbks again Fern!) I noted a brand spanking new
> > sign on Coast Highway -- "Bikes Yield to Cross Traffic."
> >       Huh? There isn't cross troffic -- it's a merge. Is THIS the fruit
> of
> > the petition?
> >
> > Robert Leone
> >
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