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Originally Posted by Nufy
Or...fully separate and independent bike lanes.
Funded solely by bike registration fees and insurance adders..
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Sure, but you know, in the absence of those…
And even then. Years and years ago, maybe a decade+, I had parked in a spot where you’re between the bike lane and the curb. Without thinking, I opened my door and almost hit a cyclist (he rightly and properly told me off and continued on his way). It’s a lesson I only needed to learn once, but that person in a bike lane was still at risk because of someone (me) being an idiot.
Regardless, safety of cyclists should be every driver’s responsibility, not just theirs. The driver in the situation posted was obviously in the right, but that doesn’t change the many instances where drivers act like idiots because cyclists “shouldn’t be there” or aren’t being the safest. And that goes down to cyclists respecting pedestrians regardless of whether they should be there or not.