{"id":325,"date":"2013-06-13T09:42:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2013-06-13T09:42:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:42:34","slug":"merging-with-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/merging-with-traffic.html","title":{"rendered":"Merging with Traffic? But Bikes ARE Traffic…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently noticed this sign, “BIKES MERGE WITH TRAFFIC”\u00a0 in Seattle’s International District:<\/p>\n

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I remember the Critical Mass <\/a>cry, “We ARE traffic”…<\/p>\n

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There shouldn’t be a debate about whether bikes qualify as legitimate traffic; we really are legal traffic<\/a> in Washington State.<\/p>\n

And, while some bicyclists do occasionally block other traffic to make a point (which is usually illegal<\/a>), bicyclists are also the best traffic to have on the road– no matter who your are.<\/p>\n

Why? Because motorists pretty much always block other motorists.\u00a0 On my ride in this morning I noticed motorized traffic blocking not only other motorized traffic, but the bike lane as well.<\/p>\n

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As traffic, I rode outside of the bike lane (which is legal in Washington<\/a>), and continued to the light (where I stopped and took this photo).<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what SDOT means with its “BIKE MERGE WITH TRAFFIC” sign, it seems to perpetuate the myth that we are not traffic.\u00a0 I like this sign<\/a> better:<\/p>\n

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I recently noticed this sign, “BIKES MERGE WITH TRAFFIC”\u00a0 in Seattle’s International District: I remember the Critical Mass cry, “We ARE traffic”… There shouldn’t be a debate about whether bikes qualify as legitimate traffic; we really are legal traffic in Washington State. And, while some bicyclists do occasionally block other traffic to make a point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle-advocates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}