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• lonestar replied to a topic in the forum Legal Issues:

  October 12, 2011

  lane splitting

  this is a piece posted in an Irish "bike awareness" site. Some of you guys may not have heard it about and may be interested... To: Motorcycle and Scooter Riders Date: 07/25/11 Subject: New Paper about MC & Scooter Lane...  morethis is a piece posted in an Irish "bike awareness" site. Some of you guys may not have heard it about and may be interested... To: Motorcycle and Scooter Riders Date: 07/25/11 Subject: New Paper about MC & Scooter Lane Sharing Motorcycle and Scooter lane sharing and traffic filtering is widely practiced (and formally permitted or tacitly tolerated) in most of the world because it is a natural way to increase road-space utilization and personal mobility efficiency. Linked here is an important new five page paper by San Francisco-based transportation safety specialist (and rider) Steve Guderian. It succinctly grounds the assertion that lane sharing and filtering lowers accident rates which cause rider deaths and injuries. The significant safety benefits of lane sharing and filtering have long been intuitively known by experienced riders. But getting non-riding political leaders -- and the American public -- to accept this has been impossible (except in...    less