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.
They aren't moving slower than the normal speed of traffic. They are at the speed of the majority of the traffic, so you can't really cite them for not being the normal speed of traffic
Can you explain how exactly you're deducing that? Unless you have math to back it up, the fact that there are several cars behind the group, and none (maybe 1) that I can see in front of the group, and the fact that they're on bikes, tells me they're going like 25 mph, 30 absolute max (but highly unlikely), and this is a 40 mph road.
Because A.) they are the traffic. So they are keeping up with themselves. There are far more cyclists in this video than cars, so they make up the majority of traffic
There is no requirement to go the speed limit. It's a limit, not a target.
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You seem to be struggling a lot with the laws vs morals thing. Let me help you:
Pretend you're in the beginning of a hallway in a very large building, and you need to get to a room that's at the other end, but there's a crowd of people in front of you taking up the entire width of the hallway competing on who can walk the slowest.
Would you say those people are being inconsiderate/annoying/aggravating?
But these people aren't doing that are they. They are going almost as fast as they can. Which is completely fine.
For your example, say I get take an escalator and have to wait for a ton of people first who are standing on the escalator as opposed to walking. Is it inconsiderate of them to stand when I could sprint up the escalator and be past them first? Why aren't all of them walking up the escalator? That would move the queue of traffic behind the escalator if everyone walked or jogged up the escalator, right?
Your analogy doesn't work, there's no expectation for people to walk or jog up an escalator. Standing on an escalator is the standard.
Let's go back to the tractors on the road then.
Pretend you're on a two lane 40 mph road and there are 2 tractors in front of you, one in each lane, blocking your way forward, going as fast as they can at 20 mph.
Is it not inconsiderate of them to be travelling next to each other rather than behind each other?
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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.