In all fifty U.S. states, traffic law defines a bicycle as a vehicle and/or grants cyclists both the rights and responsibilities of a motor vehicle. This means that legally, cyclists are expected to travel in the same direction as the motor vehicles with which they share a road.
Maybe riding on the left is OK in the UK, but it isn't in the parts of the world where we drive on the right. It just doesn't work! Image credit: George Redgrave, flickr.com |