On 22/05/2015 00:01, TMS320 wrote:

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in

There are 33,000,000 motorists who regularly pass parked cars, often
closely because of road width, who travel at much faster speeds than
cyclists, but rarely hit opening doors.

How do you know?

Perhaps because he spends a lot of his driving time in urban areas where
exactly those conditions apply?

What do you think? Think it's a runner?

Cyclists are always whinging that drivers should give them a least a metre
when passing them, but pass parked cars much closer than that.

Perhaps you've never noticed that as roads get faster, lanes get wider. It
has something to do with the requirement to increase space between vehicles
as speed rises.

Yes, but he wasn't talking about high speed routes, was he? He was
talking about urban (probably inner-city) streets and relatively low
speeds (eg, 30 mph or less).

A stationary car also does not generate as much air turbulence as one
travelling at 30mph plus. You've never noticed the bow wave and wash of
large lorries when you pass them on the motorway?

What does that have to do with the topic?