The city of Vancouver says for bike couriers to not swerve in and out of parked cars in their information packet to bike couriers. VPD says that you should. Which is it? #bikeyvr - ThreadSky

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markburge.ca • 8 days ago

The city of Vancouver says for bike couriers to not swerve in and out of parked cars in their information packet to bike couriers. VPD says that you should. Which is it? #bikeyvr

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zynks.bsky.social•8 days ago

I have no doubt that the city of Vancouver is providing the best advice.

kayteschke.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes, similarly the ICBC Learn to Drive Manual indicates that people biking don’t always stay to the right, for good reasons.
https://www.icbc.com/assets/en/63cHBOAVpOAQGOOMBFhFbL/driver-full.pdf

adamlbrown.bsky.social•8 days ago

It depends whether you think its safe for the car behind to overtake or not (without you having to slow down). Generally hold your line, but sometime you want to get rid of the car on your tail, so you pull to oneside and signal them to pass

kayteschke.bsky.social•8 days ago

No matter what, driver must wait until they can come from *behind and pass *safely. On highway, sometimes slow-moving vehicles pull aside to let faster traffic pass, but drivers in the rear must wait for that to happen before they pass.
Shocking VPD decision. Disappointing comment from @kylalee.ca

markburge.ca•8 days ago

This is the part that blows me away- the police are literally saying you don’t have to do that, which is not what the law (or precedent) says.

markburge.ca•8 days ago

I remember this distinctly from when I wrote the test when I was a courier. https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/bike-courier-study-package.pdf

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