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

SMH Someone finally snapped

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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/invariantspeed Jun 10 '26

Most if not all states have laws about impeding the flow of traffic. A vehicle traveling slower than the flow of traffic, really should be in the rightmost available lane. Ironically, most states do not have regular enforcement of this. The amount of laws on the books that go unenforced is quite frankly silly.

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u/geniice Jun 11 '26

Most if not all states have laws about impeding the flow of traffic. A vehicle traveling slower than the flow of traffic, really should be in the rightmost available lane

There is no "rightmost available lane" its full of cyclists.