If a car or a van or any other motor vehicle was indicating and positioned to turn right, any traffic temporarily held up by it would have to patiently wait. They should do the same with cyclists. There's this strange expectation that cyclists should somehow 'keep out of the way', by riding close to the kerb so cars can always squeeze past them, or by using narrow painted lanes or even bollarded ones that often give up at bus stops and junctions, and make turning right even more difficult. The advice I received from an experienced cyclist was to position yourself in traffic where you'd be if you were driving a car. In that way drivers can more easily see you and have to acknowledge your existence, which might actually be safer than special facilities that remove cyclists from the traffic flow and where motorists can ignore them.
Peter Evans ● 1488d