When you are driving on a road with more than one lane i.e. two lanes; the inside lane is for faster vehicles as the outer lane will merge in and out joining traffic or turning off the main road. Hopefully the merging traffic will join in a zipper fashion one vehicle one merger – one vehicle one merger zip zip zip. And the inner lane will allow for the outer lane to join when they are ready to dedicate themselves to concentrating on maintaining a faster speed and heading forward. The inner lane to me has always been the fast lane. Don’t merge in there and then bog down and put put put along. It isn’t for the Sunday driver (slow-goer) or the landscape admirers rubbernecking the surroundings like a tourist.
More than two lanes i.e. three lanes; then the middle lane is the zipper lane, middle of the road literally – not the fast / passing lane (that’s be the inner one), but the putting along regular and in no hurry lane. Not the ready to merge in and out or turn lane (that’d be the outer lane) and not the fast hurry hurry lane (that’d be the inner lane).
Motorcycles, you want to be seen, then act like a regular car. Don’t weave in and out and zip zip all over. Especially in these states like Minnesota when you have a slim time frame when you are able to drive on the roads here due to snow and winter. People and residents of snowy states eyes aren’t trained to watch for motor-bikes. It takes a mental effort to put ‘Motorcycle Eyes on’. Don’t take it for granted that people will see you. IMO the people that notice motorcycles are generally motorcyclists and/or friends and family members of motorcyclists. That, sadly, leaves a whole lot of people not in that category, many without ‘Motorcycle Eyes’.
Bicyclists, you are not a motorcycle and you are not a car, yet you are considered a vehicle while you are being ridden and in motion. You have rules and laws to follow as well. You don’t get to apply the rules you choose whenever you like as you choose. Sometimes I’ve seen cyclists on the sidewalk as a pedestrian. I’ve seen cyclists on the roads at stop lights and stop signs as if they were a car or truck but when they choose that it isn’t what they want then they switch it up to make their own rules. They drive their bikes across a cross walk. Then they are a vehicle, if they walk it they are a pedestrian. There is a difference. A pedestrian always has the right of way when dealing with a vehicle. But when you’re a fellow vehicle then it is a matter of courtesy, laws and regulations; the vehicle to the right gets to go first. Or the vehicle that arrived first gets to go first unless told to go by the other driver i.e. ‘go ahead, you go first – I’m not in a hurry’. A cyclist should go do what traffic does, travel in the direction of the traffic i.e. the right side of the road.
A pedestrian if you are walking then you walk on sidewalks where available; if no sidewalk exists then you walk with traffic if you are hitchhiking. But typically for the best and safest choice you should walk into traffic when you are just walking for exercise, transportation or for funsies.
That’s all for now, end of my morning rant. Sharing my opinion IMO in my own words; these are not absolute and are open for revision, but nevertheless they are my ideas and opinions from my background, from my perspective and from my life. Mahala – Namaste – Cheers!
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