Anti-Dooring Awareness Campaigns

Find & view pre-Dutch Reach anti dooring videos here.

A great place to start is Toronto which had its first anti-dooring campaign in 2005 and appears to have originated the term "Door Prize" for the tragic fact of being killed or injured by a negligently opened car door.  Among many concerned voices, Lloyd Alter who writes for Treehugger, has been perhaps the most articulate and passionate of advocates focused on dooring prevention.  Alter has for years promoted the - as yet un-monikered - reach method as part of the solution.  In a 2016 article he lauded the 'Dutch Reach' coinage.

TORONTO, CANADA

Why dooring cyclists is like a sunny day  - Treehugger

The Door Prize  - Treehugger

Door prize – Biking TorontoCollecting the Door Prize  - Treehugger

Door Prize Lady Charged "To The Full Extent of the Law"  - Treehugger

Survey: Should Drivers Who Give Out The Door Prize Be Charged?  - Treehugger

The Guardian on the Door Prize: How Bad Bike Lane Design Is Killing Cyclists  - The Guardian

Here's how drivers can help save cyclist lives: Do the "Dutch Reach"  -  Treehugger

Objects in mirror...could be saved   -  Treehugger

Cycling  -  City of Toronto, Canada Cycling Infomation Website

Safety & Education -- Car Bike Collisions -- Understanding Types of Collisions

City now issues anti-dooring window decals to taxi, Uber, and Lyft operators

"One Door One Life" / "Une Porte Une Vie"

Cyclists launch campaign to prevent ‘dooring’

Cyclists launch campaign to prevent ‘dooring’

Ongoing Une Porte Une Vie website

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The Road Safety Action Group Inner Melbourne, in the State of Victoria, Australia undertook a series of research projects as early as 2011 to study the occurrence, causes and actions to reduce doorings, with the issue having become a major concern for the cycling community in the absence of government recognition or action.  It's initial study found that doorings were the most common cause of linner Melbournes bike crashes, amounting to 19.7% of all such incidents from 2010 t0 2011.  RSAGIM produced, commissioned and/or published the following in what eventually became an NGO/governmental collaboration with Parliamentary support:

1. “Bicycle Rider Collisions with Car Doors” by Road Safe Action Group Inner Melbourne (RSAGIM).
2. "A multi-stage, multi-faceted approach to addressing ‘car dooring’ in inner Melbourne," Bolitho, J., Road Safety Action Group Inner Melbourne. Australasian College of Road Safety Conference – “A Safe System: The Road Safety Discussion” Adelaide, 2013.
3. Reducing ‘car-dooring’: The role of stickers as visual reminders, Final Report, Concepts of Change with Ipsos Social Research August, 2013.

Related reports:

What infrastructure and legal changes are needed to prevent dooring deaths in Melbourne, Better by Bike, 2015?

9 August 2012: 

VicRoads* issued warning on dooring; tip advises far hand method.

VicRoads inserted advertisements in newspapers to warn drivers and passengers of the doubling of fines for dooring offences.

The warning ad may be downloaded here.

The Bicycle Network website maintains coverage of the dooring issue, viz:

Bicycle Network - Melbourne, Victoria, & NSW:  Anti-Dooring Posts , News, Initiatives

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Doorings of riders is of serious concern as new riders flock to the streets and driver distraction worsens. Many serious injuries, and death, have resulted. 

* Note:  "VicRoads or the Roads Corporation of Victoria is a statutory corporation which is the road and traffic authority in the state of Victoria, Australia." -  Melbourne is the capital and most populous  city of Victoria. -- Wikipedia.

February, 2013:

“Look Chicago” Anti-Dooring Campaign - which includes fad hand method in flier. See adjacent image.

June, 2008:

Someone Opened A door And Killed My Friend - general anti-dooring awareness campaign by Chicago Fixed Gear Forum in 2008.

Objects in mirror...could be saved   - Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, June 2008.

LOOK Chicago with 'Reach' text added - 2013:

“Look Chicago” Anti-Dooring Campaign Starts Flyering on Saturday, Streets Blog Chicago, Feb 28, 2013

"Doors Hurt" flier produced by the City of New Haven, CT, USA Dept of Transportation, Traffic & Parking for its 2013 anti- dooring campaign.  Click on image to enlarge.

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New Haven campaign to re-train drivers taught "The Amsterdam method"!

In 2013, the New Haven's Transportation, Traffic & Parking Dept. promoted "the new Amsterdam technique" ie. 'reach across' --  and other advice to reduce cyclist doorings. "Doors Hurt" flyers were placed on parked car windshields in a downtown business district.    The flyers were the centerpiece of the driver reeducation campaign.  The T T & P Dept. picked up on the idea after Devil’s Gear Bike Shop & Elm City Cycling called for anti-dooring infrastructure improvements and posted cyclist suggestions which included the 'reach' on its website.  But New Haven's campaign did not use a unique name to describe it. However a news story in the New Haven Independent refers to the maneuver as the Amsterdam or European method.

The City of Fort Collins, Colorado's FC Bikes in coordination with the local cycling non-profit Fort Collins Bikes developed and began promoting the "Opposite Hand Trick" aka far hand reach method in the mid 2010's.

It is part of  FC Bikes/Bike Fort Collns' Bicycle Friendly Driver Program.  The BFDP is now being adopted in scores of towns and cities around the the country.