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I blow reds on certain intersections to avoid people making right turns into me.

Most of the time it happens on one-way-crossing-one-way where the driver next to me is looking left, not thinking they need to look right because traffic on the cross street is one way.

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I've been yelled at in similar situations. For "riding in the middle of the road" when I'm simply not riding in the right turn lane. It's never safe to put yourself in a position where you are going straight and a car is turning right.

VA also notes this in the law[0]. If the lane is a turn only, you don't have to ride near the curb of the turn only lane.

[0]http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+46.2-905 p4.

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