[*BCM*] Just got "pulled over" for running a red on Mass. Ave.

[Jim Leonard]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:41:39PM -0500, Hiroyuki Yamada wrote:
> Sort of off topic, but another beef with that intersection is the fact 
> that when they added the two bike lanes, they nixed one of the lanes of 
> traffic, leading to a *three* lane road, both sides (i.e. northbound has 
> 2 lanes, southbound 1). Has anyone else run into problems where both 
> leading up to the corsswalk (basically starting at around vassar) all 
> the way through to that next light (amherst alley) that motorists ignore 
> the fact that there's 1 less lane? Thereby occupying the bike lane and 
> forcing cyclists closer into the dooring zone/basically off the road? 
> (I've needled in between the lines of cars or even had to swing out onto 
> the left hand side (basically on the oncoming lane side) to avoid the 
> clogging)

I've seen this and I've seen cops berate moterists for it but never ticket
for it.

--jim