But if bicycles are passing you on the inside when you are in the bicycle lane why do you complain about having to get behind them for "hundreds of feet" before your turn?
Something you have to remember about riding a bicycle is that they (for the most part) don't have motors, every time you slow down on a bicycle it requires your own human effort to speed back up again and a lot of bicyclists try to maintain momentum as much as possible in order to minimize the effort required to reach their destination. In a hot climate (albeit dry heat) like LA that effort can lead to getting very hot and sweaty (and not a good way 
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It might be illuminating to you to try actually riding a bicycle in traffic for at least a little while and you could gain I think a valuable perspective on human powered locomotion. What's as easy to you as just pressing slightly harder on the accelerator pedal requires a great deal of effort on the part of someone riding a bicycle.
That being said, not everyone on a bicycle is a saint and not everyone driving a car is clueless dweeb and I don't mean to imply otherwise.
I appreciate your asking the question and I'm not sure I have a good answer for you that will fit every situation.
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