Slog - Comments on Cyclist Doored, Traffic Shut Down on E Union

Comment by someguy

someguy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:03:58 -0800

Why is this news again?

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:09:42 -0800

Poor little Dutchperson...

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:54:24 -0800

And here you would have thought that the space between the moving cars and the parked cars would be ideal for bikes. What could go wrong?

Comment by raindrop

raindrop — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:17:30 -0800

If the bicylist had just been going slower, he could have averted it. Even if the driver opened the door at the time the bicylist had been going by -- if he was oing slower it would have not required a trip to Harborview.

Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay

Catalina Vel-DuRay — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:24:24 -0800

You covered this, yet you didn't cover the gnarly bike/car tangle in Chinatown earlier this week?

Comment by Giffy

Giffy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:29:18 -0800

Sad for sure, but why exactly does the whole street need to be closed? I cannot imagine it taking to long to move the bike, take him to Harborview, and take some pictures.

Comment by BorderMan

BorderMan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:02:09 -0800

And then a pit bull ate the bicyclist. We really should ban them and all large dogs. Well, all dogs. And cyclists.

And doors. Doors are the enemy.

Comment by comment

comment — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:09:14 -0800

yawn.

Comment by The Honorable Mayor Greg Nickels

The Honorable Mayor Greg Nickels — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:54:39 -0800

If the bicyclist would have stayed home...

Comment by Amelia

Amelia — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:00:36 -0800

@6: Dooring does cut a swath. The two times I've been doored, I was going pretty slowly, and I still got bounced off the door and then off the car next to me in the lane. Both I and my bike hit whatever car happened to be on my left. Presumably, if I'd been going faster I would have done a Mary Poppins up and over the car door, with no horizontal vector? (How fast is that?)

Unfortunately, the only person I haven't managed to hit so far in these incidents was the driver opening the car door.

Comment by ABM0000

ABM0000 — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:30:06 -0800

Why is this news again?

Comment by me

me — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:29:11 -0800

Was the cyclist "doored" or was the car "cyclisted?"