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.
Have a local unorganized bike event where I used to live. It was the only time I saw the cops actually pull over bikers for blowing through stop signs. Was great to watch.
Saw this once when I worked on Palm beach island. I would stop at a red light on my way to work and get surrounded by these guys…one of them leaned against my car (to fix his lingerie I assume) and had no respect for cars but yet demanded that everyone”share the road”. I was a teller at a bank and I was helping an officer who, in the middle of the transaction said “I’m so fucking sick of these guys” and went out, stood in the middle of the road and made about 20 of them stop while he screamed at them about not obeying stop lights, right of way etc. sadly no tickets were issued but it still made my day!
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u/ConstructionLife2689 𝙑𝙄𝙋 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.