The author urges Americans to adopt the “Dutch Reach,” which means opening the car door with the FAR hand while rotating your body to check for cyclists on the road
Okay, could work, but in a place where people are all…let’s say “on the same page.” I could see Iceland, for example (a place I have never been) mobilizing towards this, getting this done as a cultural change. I am afraid that not enough residents of the USA would ever get the memo, or care.
The better solution on “dooring” is investing in more protected bike lanes with parking on bicycle lane’s left side(from the perspective of bicycle movement) and pedestrian sidewalk to the right: Still not foolproof as passenger side doors also dangerous, but likely to save lives over the long run. I assume most dooring happens on busy but wide-enough roads that, given different spending priorities, could have had protected lanes on them. Wilson Boulevard between Rosslyn and Courthouse in Arlington recently put these in, and I feel the dooring risk there is a lot lower over what it was last year.
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