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Just a Three-Foot Gap to Pass Bicyclists is Seriously Unsafe

In the past few years, some states and cities have introduced laws that there must be a gap of at least three feet when a driver passes a cyclist.  Sadly, even cycling groups are seeing this as a good thing but yet again, very disappointingly, on this subject the USA is a long way behind the world’s leading countries in road safety.

Cyclist in traffic.
Cyclists who are passing parked cars while being passed themselves are between the proverbial rock and a hard place. If the moving vehicle comes too close,  or a car door opens, or a pedestrian steps out, it is quite likely that somebody is going to get hit and get hurt. (Copyright image, 2018.)

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