As I'm approaching a particular intersection on my bike route in the bike lane, a right-turn lane appears which is to the right of the bike lane. As I want to turn right, I get in the right lane. This is the steepest uphill part of my ride, so I am going very slowly. Try to stay out of the way, and there is plenty of space for cars to get around me but it still makes me nervous. There is a sidewalk along side, and I'm thinking of using that instead.
I can get on the sidewalk at the last driveway that is a good ways away from the intersection, then other than right at this intersection, there is no driveway crossing until I am well past this spot - at the next crosswalk, I can just merge back over into the bike lane (very carefully, of course). It is legal to ride on the sidewalk here provided we yield to pedestrians and so on. And I've yet to see a pedestrian on the sidewalk along here - I'm sure someone has walked it, but this is not really close to anything so not much pedestrian traffic.
Am I missing anything here? I know staying in the road is within my rights, but given how hard a time I have getting up this hill, might be best to not be in the road.