How riding a bike in the US is different to Australia:
* bike lanes on the road are much narrower, sometimes narrower than the bicycle
* people routinely ride the wrong way in bicycle lanes, forcing the rider going the correct way into the traffic (I have never had this happen in Australia, but twice in one week here.)
* cars can turn right on a red light, so if you are on a bike stopped at a red light you are where the cars behind you want to go to turn right. However...
* at least where I am, drivers are very polite and do not mind that you are preventing them turning right. Drivers stop and wave me past them at intersections where actually I should be giving way to them. The general courtesy of drivers to bicycles and other drivers is very different from big cities in Australia.
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