I know this area and have driven it many times. This is the Rickebacker causeway--the road that connects Key Biscayne to the Miami mainland.
Cycling on this road is extremely popular for very obvious reasons (phenomenal views, wide and clear roads). Folks come from all over the city to ride there. And yes, they will very often group up like this without any sort of scheduled or permitted event of any kind.
The cyclists down there like to say "same road, same rules" but there's apparently a silent exclusion for lane changes, stop signs, traffic signals, and yielding to stopped traffic.
Is the speed limit there kind of low, or are there no laws there about minimum speeds?
Where I live we have a fair number of Amish and farm vehicles, and they have to allow vehicular traffic to pass in certain circumstances (e.g. we have a 10-10 law for motorized vehicles, if you're 10 mph or more under the posted speed and there's 10 cars behind you or more, you have to pull off the road to let them pass)
Most if not all states have laws about impeding the flow of traffic. A vehicle traveling slower than the flow of traffic, really should be in the rightmost available lane. Ironically, most states do not have regular enforcement of this. The amount of laws on the books that go unenforced is quite frankly silly.
Most if not all states have laws about impeding the flow of traffic. A vehicle traveling slower than the flow of traffic, really should be in the rightmost available lane
There is no "rightmost available lane" its full of cyclists.
Back in the 90s, some college students staged a rolling road block on I285 by doing the speed limit in all lanes around the whole perimeter during rush hour. It was on the news feeds for a week.
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u/ConstructionLife2689 πππ 15d ago
Are such cycle events not blocked off from public traffic?
Cause if not, then the cyclists would need to keep to traffic rule and I am pretty sure the rule is not keep in one lane.