On street parking here is such that to leave adequate clearance on bike or car means moving to the centre of the opposite lane along a section with restricted visibility and traffic rounding a bend from the other direction at 25-30mph.
If I took the correct position I’d be dead by now. If I waited, as I’ve been told on here I should as failure to do so is aggressive, I would cause serious traffic build up behind me.
I live on a road that is too narrow for cars to be parked on both sides, so their owners park them halfway on the pavement either side and that means that for about 100 yards there is a narrow funnel which is only just big enough to carefully thread a car. Consequently I ride slap bang in the centre of the road, thereby staying out of the doorzone and preventing the occasional ambitious feckwit who'd try to squeeze past if I skimmed the parked cars.
Most drivers give the time to get through there, even though it's up a long hill. I still get the odd nobber who'll come down the hill (passing many opportunities to pull in and wait till I pass) and come right at me to bully me with their SUV. It doesn't work.
Nothing cyclists or drivers can do about such situations other than pass parked cars far to closely.
Ackcherly, drivers could do something about it by not littering valuable road space with their cars. In my road, *every single car* dumped half on the pavement could be in a driveway or garage but they're too feckin' lazy to do that, or they want to 'keep the driveway free for visitors', or the garage is full of shoot they don't have space for in the house but they can't be arsed to clear it out and actually use it for a car.
It's always struck me as bonkers that someone would buy a house with a garage, only to fill it with worthless junk yet leave their £40,000 Merc out on the street. ¯\_(?)_/¯
(Apologies for the ranting tone, it's not directed at you.)