Old 02-21-24, 12:32 PM
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Leisesturm
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Originally Posted by Garfield Cat
Being doored to death is a cyclist’s nightmare – How can it be prevented-Q
Actually, being doored to death is NOT a fear of mine. I'm pretty sure that it ranks low on a lot of cyclists worries. I missed this thread the first time. Thanks to the re-boot, I get to ask you why you believe a situation of as low occurrence of [fatal] dooring requires any technical solution? MILLIONS of cyclists navigate, without incident, the treacherous traveling that is a bicyclists lot, in cities large and small.

I'm one of them, and I have few enough bike commuting years ahead that if, the solution to the 'nightmare' is to simply remove bicycles from the transportation paradigm, I'm ok with that. On street parking will never be eliminated in East Coast and MidWest old growth population centers, and it is a bridge too far to imagine any further widening of existing roadways elsewhere, to include buffer zones around parked cars. Cyclists have got to look out for their own interests (most already do) and ride aware and defensively.

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