Cars should only block car lanes, it's not complicated.
get your car door kicked when trying to make a right turn
So you're saying you made a right turn in front of a cyclist close enough for them to touch your car with their foot?
get your car door kicked when trying to make a right turn
So you're saying you made a right turn in front of a cyclist close enough for them to touch your car with their foot?
Edit: Sorry, in my hypothetical scenario, I left out waiting very long for perpendicular traffic and the cyclist showing up legitimately lately.
Clearly, I'm just making up this scenario, and most real life complaints are quite legit.
Where I live there's not a whole lot of bike lanes so you mostly have to ride the sidewalks on the major streets if you don't want to die. I just reach down and thump the side of their car as hard as I can when they do that to me -- probably left some impressive dents.
Yes, that means the car should come to a stop if there are cyclists oncoming, but you'd do the same in courtesy to pedestrians in the crosswalk or to cars coming he other way while you make a left turn.
When designed well, the parking lane stops and becomes a turn lane. The car is responsible for merging across the bike lane in one action, and then making the right turn in another. This happens while there is less of a speed differential, and because it pulls over, it's obvious to the bike that it intends to turn right.
The amount of sidewalk you have to scan to see if there will be pedestrians in the crosswalk in the next ~5 seconds is tiny, whereas the amount of bike lane to scan is essentially the whole block.