Road positioning

[leemo]

Just wondering what the correct positioning is in the following situation.

There is a queue of vehicles stuck in a jam. I filter on the right-hand side. I am able to filter whilst keeping to the left of the dashed line in the center of the road i.e. I dont need to go into the lane of the oncoming traffic. Simple enough so far.

On the other side of the road there is a oncoming bus that has stopped at a bus stop. As I am performing the filtering manouver I see there is a also car on the other side of the road behind the bus and wishing to overtake it.

It would be a tight squeeze for them to overtake whilst I am filtering and sensibly they wait. But what I am wondering is that maybe I should have gone over the dashed line, into their lane to prevent them from overtaking? I think I have the right of way to do this because there is not enough room for both of us and I started my manouver first.

 

[upsidedown]

I think that if you're on 'their' side of the road you should give way to them. I filter down the right of cars but about a third of the way across the oncoming lane as it's usually empty. When there's something coming the other way i pull in until it's clear again.

 

[HLaB]

I think that if you're on 'their' side of the road you should give way to them. I filter down the right of cars but about a third of the way across the oncoming lane as it's usually empty. When there's something coming the other way i pull in until it's clear again.

+1

Regardless of rights and wrong though, its also better to cycle defensively IMO, ie pull in behind a car at the moment in the OP and if its too tight for the opposing car they hit another car instead of you.

 

[Bigsharn]

I would give way personally, moving closer into the line of stationary traffic so they could get past.

 

[gaz]

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