“Tertiary” I’m using here as the position you’d be in, safely outside the door zone, if there were actually a car there! I mean overtaking a parked car (“PC”) & staying in that position as there’s another PC 20 yards further on rather than swerving in towards the kerb & then moving out again.
My regular commute includes a road with PCs one side. On my way to work, with PCs on the right hand side, it’s wide enough for an oncoming car to pass a PC with me riding in secondary. If there’s a bus oncoming, I tend to hop up on the pavement if there are no pedestrians about!
My concern is on the way home, when I have to pass the PCs. If I ride outside the door zone, there’s no room for a car to overtake me, and to be fair most don’t try to. The problem is that there are usually long-ish stretches with no PCs. If I move to primary or secondary & let someone overtake, what happens is a few yards further on they have to stop behind a PC because of oncoming traffic & I have to wait behind them, even though there’s plenty of room for me to overtake the PC.
So, even if there’s room for a car to overtake me, if I can see they’d have to stop soon after & impede my progress, what should I do? I tend to stay in tertiary, which appears to annoy the driver behind unless they’re looking far enough ahead to see that they wouldn’t get anywhere anyway.
Thoughts?
My regular commute includes a road with PCs one side. On my way to work, with PCs on the right hand side, it’s wide enough for an oncoming car to pass a PC with me riding in secondary. If there’s a bus oncoming, I tend to hop up on the pavement if there are no pedestrians about!
My concern is on the way home, when I have to pass the PCs. If I ride outside the door zone, there’s no room for a car to overtake me, and to be fair most don’t try to. The problem is that there are usually long-ish stretches with no PCs. If I move to primary or secondary & let someone overtake, what happens is a few yards further on they have to stop behind a PC because of oncoming traffic & I have to wait behind them, even though there’s plenty of room for me to overtake the PC.
So, even if there’s room for a car to overtake me, if I can see they’d have to stop soon after & impede my progress, what should I do? I tend to stay in tertiary, which appears to annoy the driver behind unless they’re looking far enough ahead to see that they wouldn’t get anywhere anyway.
Thoughts?