If you're on a bike waiting at a red light on a four way intersection, and you want to go straight, where should you be to avoid getting hit by cars turning right? I would assume the safest position is to wait in the middle of the lane so that no car can be on either side of you. Right?
But if that person goes straight then you have to struggle to get back over to the right. I would remain back 20 ft. or so on the curb. I would make sure traffic knew the direction I was headed by turning my head and trying to make eye contact. Using my hands to show if needed. They say a bicycle has the same rights of the road as a car however a car can kill you very easily and its better to be safe than sorry or in the right but dead right.
Where I live, bicyclists are used for target practice. I'd advise walking across an intersection.
Whenever I ride my bike, I still ride on the right side. When I stop at an intersection though, I don't ride all the way up to the corner, I stay a few yards back, just enough to see when it's my turn to go. I've never felt comfortable riding out "in traffic"; some people can't see you and others just don't give a rat's @#$%$#@.
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