On 2018-01-30, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:48:29 +0000, Matt Wheeler wrote: > >> Checking the side mirrors isn't particularly helpful advice if you're >> sitting in any seat other than the driver's seat, however. > > That's a fair point. > > But it really only applies to those sitting on the driver's side in the > back seat. On the passenger's side, you open the door towards the curb, > out of the way of both cyclists and on-coming traffic.
Unless the bike lane is between the "parallel parking lane" and the curb[*], in which case it's the passenger side doors that are used to catch bicycles rather than the driver's side doors. [*] This seems to be increasingly common here in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! People humiliating at a salami! gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list