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Kinda shocked people on a bike forum are jumping in to say otherwise
Could it be that the issue of ASLs is not as clear cut as you might otherwise have thought?
How, for example, are you supposed to get to the ASL box. What risks are involved in filtering through traffic. How many people are already at the ASL. How long have the lights been red. How much time do you have before it starts to move.
Some of the points do stand. But they also stand if you are waiting in line with the other traffic. They don't stand if you're squeezing up the inside to get to the front.
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I don't know whether or not it says it in the highway code but the bike boxes are there, and the points above stand. I would much rather set off in front of all the traffic than be squeezed up against the kerb or in between cars in the middle of the road as they start moving.
Kinda shocked people on a bike forum are jumping in to say otherwise, regardless of whether it is literally written in the highway code or not.