Re: Lane splitting

 
|>Animeniac wrote:
|>> My city has a bridge out .  Putting in a new one.  Traffic is nuts on
|>> the available 4 lane streets.
|>>
|>> I found myself sitting about 15 cars back behind two lanes, waiting for
|>> the light to change.  It was a long light.  I could have easily driven
|>> between both lines of cars to the front of both lanes and took off at
|>> the light.  
|>>
|>> Does anyone do this?  I have no idea if it would be illegal. ...
|>
|>
|>It is illegal where I live but I still do it occasionally.  Having had a
|>couple of them, I think your CH250 is rather good at it too!

    Lane splitting at a lengthy stop light, or crawl traffic isn't
enforced in BC....

    There's a Biker Cop who is nuts about enforcing this law, but of
course his Full Dressed M/C Harley is almost as wide as a car, so it's more
like a skinny car.

    Maxi scooters aren't that narrow either, not like rice rockets who
lane split all over the Hiway....

    Some places almost make lane splitting mandatory in such occasions,
like California...

    I personally don't care about what the other drivers do, as long as
they don't try to run me over...hi beams, whatever, they don't hurt......

 On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:46:30 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber

|>
|>    OTOH; there is also a law regarding "multiple lane changes" in some
|>specified distance (100 feet I think) -- so weaving through traffic is
|>illegal.

    That's a very unforced law, they do it all the time, like there was
an emergency somewhere, some don't even signal.....I hate that, when they
cut me off.
     I'll usually hit the hi beams and tailgate them awhile, maybe
adding a siren is good scare for them, but I'm still working on my Gorilla
theft alarm system, so the siren will wait....

    Using a theft alarm system that sounds like a Cop Siren might be
good, just punch the panic button on the anti-theft alarm...

 

If you get 'cut off' it is your fault
don't follow so close.

 
|>
|>> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:46:30 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber
|>>
|>> |>
|>> |> OTOH; there is also a law regarding "multiple lane changes" in some
|>> |>specified distance (100 feet I think) -- so weaving through traffic is
|>> |>illegal.
|>>
|>> That's a very unforced law, they do it all the time, like there was
|>> an emergency somewhere, some don't even signal.....I hate that, when they
|>> cut me off.
|>
|>If you get 'cut off' it is your fault
|>don't follow so close.
|>

    So you think it's awrright when they cut into you even without
signaling...heh

    I leave a car length in the city, and more as the speeds get higher,
if I was close, I wouldn't get cut off....it all pretty much depends also
depends on how close the you are being tailgated....

 


Ok, let's approach this from a different angle.

What the hell does it mean anyway: "Cut me off".  Cut you off from what?
You can't go any faster, there is a car in front blocking your way, probably
cars on both sides too.  So fricking what, a car moved into your lane?  How
exactly is that a bad thing?  You have no right over the space in front of
you.

Like another poster said, the ONLY way it is a problem is if you are SO
CLOSE to the car in front that you have to apply the brakes to avoid hitting
someone.  If there was ample following space, cars that NEED to change lanes
could do so without causing a stir.

"Cut me off" is the badge of a tailgating whiner.  PEOPLE NEED TO CHANGE
LANES.  Learn to live with it.  A few minutes from now it will be YOU that
needs to change lanes.  Be damn sure you don't "cut somebody off".