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Old 09-09-21 | 08:14 AM
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Vismund B
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I live near this type of bike lane situation. I frequently park my car in parking spaces just like that. I have two young children and a spouse. When we park there I try not to open the rear door al the way as I’m fastening / unfastening their car seats. I always am there to make sure it’s clear for them to run to the sidewalk and wait for me or to get into the car. For the most part any bikers that happen to be passing during this time tend to slow down. The only time I’ve had a close call was 2 times with wrong way riders.

I have also been teaching my children that they must treat the bike lane like a car lane and look both ways every time that they must pass it. I repeat it each time we pass the bike lane.

I find that it’s much much scarier to exit the vehicle from the drivers side / drivers side rear. There is not much buffer between the parked cars and the moving cars. And people are always speeding.
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