When can you drive in a bike lane?
- During rush hour traffic if there are no bicyclists in the bike lane.
- When you are within 200 feet of a cross street where you plan to turn right. ✓
- When you want to pass a driver ahead of you who is turning right.
Answer: B. When you are within 200 feet of a cross street where you plan to turn right.
You can drive in a bike lane when you are within 200 feet of a cross street where you plan to turn right.
Why this is the answer
The handbook treats bike lanes as reserved for bicyclists and lists only a few exceptions, including turning within 200 feet of an intersection. For a right turn, it says to drive close to the right edge and allows you to use the bike lane within 200 feet from the turn, while checking blind spots for bicyclists. That matches the choice about being within 200 feet of a cross street where you intend to turn right. Traffic congestion or an empty bike lane does not create a separate exception.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. During rush hour traffic if there are no bicyclists in the bike lane. — Rush-hour traffic and the absence of bicyclists are not listed as reasons you may drive in a bike lane; the lane is still for bicyclists only unless an exception applies.
- C. When you want to pass a driver ahead of you who is turning right. — Passing a driver who is turning right is not one of the allowed uses; the handbook's exceptions are parking where permitted, entering or leaving the road, and turning within 200 feet of an intersection.
Remember it
Link bike-lane driving to the turn you are about to make, not to how busy the road is.