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Who’s telling people they should ride in the door zone? Absolutely not me, I’m well in the stay the f away from parked cars camp and tell anyone who listens to do the same.
What I’m talking about is I regularly have to move into the door zone even if it’s temporarily to allow room for traffic coming in the other direction (for example). Especially when often hostile drivers occupy more space than they need and don’t check their speed at all to accommodate sharing the road with someone -or say me and my family who are more vulnerable.
I slow down, take extra care, and am observant of what’s happening with the parked cars. Then move back to relative safety when I can
The only alternative on many roads is to completely stop every time the road gets slightly congested.
All that care and attention can be completely invalidated by someone saying, well you shouldn’t have been in the door zone in the first place (that’s the flippant response). When no, I shouldn’t have been doored full stop.