Originally Posted by
cooker
I don't get it. You fly over? No, seriously, I don't get it.Good points, although when I'm driving a car on a narrow street, especially a one-way street, I prefer parking to be on the right. ....
NYC has had alternate side parking for street cleaning for decades, so NYC drivers tend to decent parkers on either side. I actually prefer when parking is on the right of one-ways, so I can ride the left side door free. It's also been SOP in New York for bicycles to ride the left side of all one way avenues (parking on both sides), which reduces doorings for the reasons I mentioned earlier, and keeps bikes and buses on opposite sides. A continuation of that philosophy is why avenue bike lanes are on the left.
Bikes keep left on one ways makes good sense all the way around because drivers tend to have better vision and judgments toward the left.