In March, the city of Vista installed berms and bollards in bike lanes throughout much of the city in an effort to keep cyclists safe. Now, just a few months later, the city is removing berms and bollards in some areas.
If you are going to have parking, then you put the bike lane between the travel lane and parking. Drivers usually will look before blindly opening their door into traffic. Passengers won’t usually do that because they’re usually along the curb. Drivers that don’t check, wouldn’t have anyway because they’re insane.
At least on the driver side the driver tends to look for traffic before swinging open a door.
There’s no perfect solution without redesigning everything but the passenger side between footpath and car park is the worst place without actual large buffer zone
In my home city they installed bike lanes on the passenger side of the car parks on the sides of the road between the foot path. Cost a great deal.
Then cyclists kept getting knocked over by passengers opening their doors into cyclists so months later they removed them all.
Government efficiency at its finest
Where would you have installed them? You’ll get hit by the driver door if you swap the orientation.
You either put a buffer between the parking and the bike lane, such that opening car doors don’t intrude into it, or you remove the parking entirely.
While this is ideal, often lanes don’t come with road widening budgets.
If you are going to have parking, then you put the bike lane between the travel lane and parking. Drivers usually will look before blindly opening their door into traffic. Passengers won’t usually do that because they’re usually along the curb. Drivers that don’t check, wouldn’t have anyway because they’re insane.
At least on the driver side the driver tends to look for traffic before swinging open a door.
There’s no perfect solution without redesigning everything but the passenger side between footpath and car park is the worst place without actual large buffer zone