Originally Posted by mac
1. Why are you riding in the door zone?
2. If you know cars park in the bike lane next to the school, why do you ride in the bike lane?
Glad you're okay, though. When I ride, I encounter the unexpected door swinging open, but I'm outside of its reach which means I'm in the street. If you have a 3 lane road, you should be able to comfortably ride outside the door zone, unless it's bumper to bumper in all 3 lanes.
I have no choice. And they aren't parked in front of the school. They are stopped on a main road that the school is set back off of. There is a side street and the entrance to the school is off the side street.
I do ride outside the door zone. This was a kid getting out of his Dad's SUV from the passengers side with the vehicle stopped in the middle lane!!!
There really aren't any alternate routes for me to take either. I've been more careful after the door incident but I wasn't expecting that car to pull over and stop right in front of me this morning though. That was completely out of the blue.