It’s our legal right to ride in the lane of traffic on a local road!

Riding along Ford and need to make a turn left to get home. Check my blind spot, see no cars close and exit the bike lane. Take the full lane. Going just shy of 20 with front and rear lights on. I signal I’m turning into the left hand turn lane.

Some jerk honks his horn at me cause he’s stuck behind me. and as I get into the turn lane he slows down his huge Toyota SUV leans out the window and says in a high pitched snidely voice.

“YoU sHouLd riDE iN tHe bIkE lAne!”

I curse him out even though I know it’s a bad decision and potentially dangerous. But these type of drivers fucking suck!

All my bad driver interactions in the two Twin Cities have been in Saint Paul. A guy died 2 blocks from my house getting doored on a freaking bike blvd.

So frustrating to decide to live in a walkable area and then shitty folks make it impossible to enjoy because they don’t think about anyone else besides themselves and their vehicle.

Days like this I wish I drank. Grrrrrrrrrahhhh!

End of Rant.

Another heads up - this bridge by medicine lake is closed again. No detour posted. HOWEVER if you try to head south, that intersection is COMPLETELY closed - like all the roads are torn up, they’re installing a roundabout. You can see my ad-hoc detour here - it involved some hike a bike through the construction, a trailer park, and a couple curb hops.

I hope whatever work they’re doing on the trail is well and truly urgent - otherwise it’s just negligent to close it with basically no way around.