You are preparing to make a right turn across a designated bike lane. A bicyclist is riding straight ahead in that lane. What must you do?
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A.
Yield to the bicyclist and complete your turn behind them. Correct
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B.
Signal and turn at the same time as the bicyclist.
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C.
Turn ahead of the bicyclist since motor vehicles have priority.
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D.
Sound your horn to warn the bicyclist and turn immediately.
The answer is "Yield to the bicyclist and complete your turn behind them."
When your right turn crosses a bike lane, yield to the bicyclist going straight and complete the turn behind them. The manual treats a through-moving bicyclist in a marked bike lane as any other vehicle with the right of way, and the lane itself is part of the roadway you must check before crossing. Drivers who pick C are relying on the general habit that a motor vehicle outranks a bicycle on shared pavement, a habit the marked bike lane specifically overrides at the turn.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Signal and turn at the same time as the bicyclist.
Simultaneous movement is the collision the yield rule is meant to prevent; the manual requires waiting until the bicyclist clears before crossing into the bike lane. This answer reads the signal-and-turn routine as the whole duty and swings into the bike lane the moment the blinker is on, before the bicyclist has cleared the turn point.
C. Turn ahead of the bicyclist since motor vehicles have priority.
The manual gives priority to the through-moving bicyclist in the bike lane, not to the turning motorist; the driver must yield and complete the turn behind the bicyclist. This answer imports the general habit that a larger motor vehicle outranks a bicycle on shared pavement, ignoring that a marked bike lane assigns the priority to the through-riding cyclist.
D. Sound your horn to warn the bicyclist and turn immediately.
A horn does not transfer right of way, and the manual specifically tells motorists to avoid honking and startling a bicyclist. This answer treats a horn tap as a way to claim the turn, the reflex a driver uses to warn a merging car off, in place of the yield the manual actually requires.
This question tests your knowledge of Right of Way in Florida. Source: Florida Driver Manual, "Sharing the Road: Bicyclists, Rules for Motorists," p.81..
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