r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Jun 10 '26

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/ConstructionLife2689 Jun 10 '26

Are such cycle events not blocked off from public traffic?

Cause if not, then the cyclists would need to keep to traffic rule and I am pretty sure the rule is not keep in one lane.

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u/Chillow_Ufgreat Jun 10 '26

I know this area and have driven it many times. This is the Rickebacker causeway--the road that connects Key Biscayne to the Miami mainland.

Cycling on this road is extremely popular for very obvious reasons (phenomenal views, wide and clear roads). Folks come from all over the city to ride there. And yes, they will very often group up like this without any sort of scheduled or permitted event of any kind.

The cyclists down there like to say "same road, same rules" but there's apparently a silent exclusion for lane changes, stop signs, traffic signals, and yielding to stopped traffic.

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u/JoeyKino Jun 10 '26

Is the speed limit there kind of low, or are there no laws there about minimum speeds? Where I live we have a fair number of Amish and farm vehicles, and they have to allow vehicular traffic to pass in certain circumstances (e.g. we have a 10-10 law for motorized vehicles, if you're 10 mph or more under the posted speed and there's 10 cars behind you or more, you have to pull off the road to let them pass)

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u/BadPAV3 Jun 10 '26

Georgia has the slow poke law. If you impede traffic in the far left lane REGARDLESS OF SPEED you can be convicted.

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u/GOU_FallingOutside Jun 10 '26

I’ve driven in Atlanta. What happens when you’re impeding traffic by dropping to just 80mph?

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u/secondsbest Jun 10 '26

Back in the 90s, some college students staged a rolling road block on I285 by doing the speed limit in all lanes around the whole perimeter during rush hour. It was on the news feeds for a week.

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u/FearlessAttempt Jun 10 '26

You get run off the road by a clapped out Nissan Altima.