No, it's not like saying that at all. I don't squeeze into door zones. When, on rare occasion, I make a decision to enter a door zone, I do so at low speed and on high alert. Unless I'm completely zoned out, of course, which is always a possibility.

Your whole theory of 'best-practice' here is based on a notion that you could avoid riding in a moderate road-sharing position while passing any sort of alley or driveway intersection, forever and always. This is a laughable notion to anyone who rides in the city. Your 'best practice' becomes useless when real situations necessitate improvisation.

City riding requires a cyclist to negotiate lane positions and situations that are more compromising than what we would consider ideal. To think otherwise is complete folly. Given the reality of traffic cycling, it is best to understand when a compromise occurs or is about to occur and how to deal with it. It is worse than useless to say 'don't compromise' when compromise is inevitable.

Robert