irc wrote:661-Pete wrote: Teaching cyclists to 'avoid the door zone' is effectively a workaround for someone else's problem....
We teach children how to cross the road safely. Working round someone's problem or common sense?
I agree but the difference is that some,in fact most people will do as they're told whilst others won't,of course they'll suffer the consequences,but like the cyclist in the video not everyone has been doored or nearly,so as to think outside the box(or lane) so it really is a work around the (many)hazards facing cyclists.
A classic example is riding in secondary,instead of hugging the curb,many cyclists are just too frightened to move out into the traffic flow and make the motor traffic go around them,I see this all the time by experienced riders,fear is the primary driving force.
In the case of the door zone I'm more frightened of being doored rather than close/punishment passed,but then I'm 6ft tall and not frightened of assertive riding.At the other end of the scale a 5ft 2in inexperienced female may either not realise the door zone danger or be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
As in the OP's link therefore choose what seems to them to be the lesser of two evils.
Some of us are prepared to absorb the threats and bullying constantly dished out by motorists,more readily than others.