New motorists to learn how to avoid mangling bicyclists while opening doors

The second comment in that article is a great example of dangerous, entitled drivers at work. They apparently think they don't have to take 2 seconds to look before opening their door because they decided to have a bunch of kids and a long commute.

How many people killed last year after being hit by a car?

How many people killed last year after being hit by a bike?

You're complaining about the wrong vehicle, buddy.

You know, the ones who are actually taking out pedestrians?

Except your ilk can't tell a red light from a green light, or so it would seem from the idiots who scream something about "red lights" at me when I am proceeding on a GREEN light on my bike.

If you don't know what jaywalking is, how you do not have the right of way when you jaywalk, and why YOU are endangering yourself and cyclists while doing it, all the blather about red lights ain't gonna help you. Keep your ass on the curb when the red hand is up and you might find that your "I almost hit a cyclist" problems improve.

You might want to re-check the recent news. Those pedestrians that were recently hit in the city were hit by cars. And this is increasing, unfortunately, not just in Boston but country wide.

Bike lanes are not always safer than the regular travel lane. Columbus Ave bike lane, for example runs too close to sloppily parked cars and is full of potholes and messed up pavement. I only use it to slowly pass cars stopped at a red light.

More than 500 New York City residents are injured badly enough to be treated in hospitals after being struck by bicyclists each year ... there are nearly 10,000 people who visit the hospital citywide each year after being struck by cars [in NYC], so this [bike injuries] is actually a pretty low number

No one is claiming bikes can't hurt people when ridden recklessly but it's not in the same league as cars. It's as if an obese chainsmoker suddenly becomes concerned about possible sickness after hearing about a salmonella outbreak at a local chain restaurant.

I'm going to pick a topic, and put the biggest goddamn chip you've ever seen on my shoulder about it. Then I'm going to set up a Google alert, keyed to a couple of related keywords about the subject, and pop into every thread that triggers it, where I'm going to loudly complain about my completely unmoored pet peeve, despite it having no relevance to the actual topic at hand. I'll make sure to hammer incessantly on it, derailing actual conversation about mayoral politics, because clearly my own quixotic agenda is more important than what the conversation is ostensibly about. Sound good?

OK, my inaugural (heh) subject is going to be Ray Flynn, who I've decided is an insidious member of the Bavarian Illuminati and wants to harvest our kidneys for his black-market organ exchange. I'll meet you guys in every thread that mentions the word "mayor" from here on out, where I'll copy and paste thousands of words of bizarre non-sequiturs and angry accusations of malfeasance by Marty Walsh, because we're talking about mayors, aren't we?

Mine eyes have been opened to a whole new means of argumentation, bike-on-pedestrian-accident-obsessed denizens of UHub. Together we shall oversee a brave new world of strawmen.

You're actually citing an article from 2011 as an argument that bicycles are a threat?

Wow.

When last at the DMV I was seated in a room with a bunch of computer terminals that administered the trivial written driver's test. I watched in horror as kids and adults had trouble with the easy questions and would help each other with the answers. No DMV employee was around to monitor or care. Complete joke.