This is such a heartless response.

This response puts both property and a narrow understanding of the law in front of lives.

First let’s just acknowledge that the article is describing a small change in driver habit to save lives. Not the lives of drivers, but the bicyclists.

Second, while bicyclist are often treated like other vehicles by default there are many exceptions made for bicycles, this is a reasonable one.

Finally this comment seems to demonstrate a deeply fundamental misunderstanding of the design flaw of putting a bunch of parked cars directly next to a bike lane with no safety gap.

There is almost no safe speed to bike next to a car where you can practically avoid a door that could open any second. This is why lanes are given a wide berth of parked cars. This same affordance has not been given to most bike lanes as cities have attempt to squeeze bike lanes into existing roads. It leaves bicyclists a sophie’s choice: ride in the road with the cars, or in the bike lane with the doors.