Dooring

“Doors Hurt” flier produced by the City of New Haven, CT, USA Dept of Transportation, Traffic & Parking for its 2013 anti- dooring campaign. “Doors Hurt” advises drivers to use their right hand to open car door but to enable swiveling to look back for cyclists. But the campaign did not use a unique name to describe it. (A contemporary news story in the New Haven Independent descibed the maneuver as the “Amsterdam Method.” Even so, the effort anticipated the Dutch Reach campaign by three years.