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At least there is no dooring-zone
Rather have a dooring zone than blindly backing into traffic and praying.
In the dooring zone all you have to do is look.
The result is more or less the same isn't it? At least when people back into traffic they seem to pay a little more attention.
No because in a dooring zone i can look to see when it's clear. In this type of parking i can't see through a car next to me and so have to reverse without being able to see when its clear.
Unless I've misunderstood what you meant by "dooring zone".
If you ride close to the cars in streets with parallel parked cars you're in the dooring zone. Someone doesn't check if there's a cyclist approaching, opens the door and you ride into the door because you can't react fast enough. Usually you can't look into the cars ahead of you, at least I rarely can. You should keep some distance from those cars, but sometimes bike lanes are in the dooring zone.
All those cars are parked nose out. They're driving forward to leave.
I like that a lot more than parallel parking with a bike lane protected by paint. There they have good protection, the drivers can see the cyclists when they're parking or unparking, that only fault is the bike lane is also the driveway for accessing that parking, but even then it's low speed
Even with the encroachment there's loads of room
Across the bike path and through the nature strip? No.
Look again, this is obviously pull-in parking.
Nobody here is driving forward to leave. Wdym?