{"id":133623049,"date":"2009-03-27T13:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=133623049"},"modified":"2009-03-27T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:30:49","slug":"taking-the-lane-on-a-4-lane-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=133623049","title":{"rendered":"Taking the lane on a 4 lane road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video there is a narrow lane present which the motorists needs to use a portion of the left lane to overtake a cyclist with three feet of width clearance.<br \/>\nThis is what you can expect from motorists because there are no laws which require a motorist to move over to the other lane to overtake a cyclist. They only need to provide three feet of clearance.<br \/>\nIt is ambiguous for me to try to define what is three feet as all they pass me. Clearly some don&#8217;t and some are questionable. Some motorists simply move over to the other lane and allow the maximum clearance. What constitutes as a &quot;safe three feet overtaking&quot; is left up to someone who won&#8217;t get hurt.<br \/>\nBy law the two lane positions are correct, The first position to the right resulted in at least one close pass with a cargo van.<br \/>\nThe second lane position to the left, yields better results in my opinion. [For] The person who is subject to death and injury.<br \/>\nThis is a good example of why a cyclist may choose to use the law and move to the left to communicate to the motorists that this is a narrow lane and a motorist will need to use a portion of the left lane to overtake the cyclist as the video shows, and provide better visibility for the motorists.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4mu1HeRczNQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4mu1HeRczNQ<\/a>oldId.20090327133049681<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video there is a narrow lane present which the motorists needs to use a portion of the left lane to overtake a cyclist with three feet of width clearance. This is what you can expect from motorists because there are no laws which require a motorist to move over to the other lane &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=133623049\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taking the lane on a 4 lane road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133623049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133623049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133623049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133623049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133623049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133623049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133623049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}