Posted by JaxKayaker on July 10, 2008, 1:28 am
Driving my truck to work, I take the freeway. On 9a which goes
around Jacksonville, there is only one stop where a new bridge is
being built, otherwise one can drive 70+ mph around the entire city.
However at this one stop, traffic REALLY tends to back up. Esp at rush
hour, sometimes it takes up to 20 minutes to get thru the bottleneck.
At least a few times a week, a motorcycle rider not content to wait
in line, will ride up between the cars, getting ahead of everyone else
waiting patiently (well some not so patiently). Today, at a bit past
noon, I was stopped at the usual bottleneck. I heard the bike coming
up behind me and watched his as he split the lanes passing several
cars, he went by me and another few cars in front of me but he must
not have been paying attention. There was a large truck with trailor
mirrors attached to it about 4 cars up ahead of me. The bike rider
apparently did not see the mirror as he went by the truck, I think
that the mirror hit his helmet and took him right off of the bike
which traveled on bouncing off of a couple of more cars. What was a
usual 20 minute wait turned in an hour or so while it was all
straightened out. The bike rider was dazed but I don't think he was
hurt. I just hope he had insurance to pay for the damage that he
caused.
Dr Phil
Posted by Bill Vanek on July 10, 2008, 9:20 am
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:35:27 -0700, "B. Peg"
>Luckily, a Nevada H.P. on a bike came splitting up between traffic (illegal
>in Nevada)
It is not illegal in Nevada for the police. The exception is written
into the law, although there are conditions that probably aren't
always met.
Posted by Michael R. Kesti on July 10, 2008, 9:52 am
"David T. Ashley" wrote:
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>I've never seen anyone do this here in Michigan. If I saw a cyclist do it,
>my perception (and the perception of most other motorists) would be that the
>naughty person was cheating the system and not waiting in line like everyone
>else. I'd view it as bad behavior.
Lane splitting is different from cutting in line at, say, the grocery
check out line. When a person cuts in line at the grocery, those who
are waiting in line are inconvenienced by having to wait longer to check
out. This is not the case for lane-splitting motorcyclists. A lane
splitter adds no time to cagers' wait to get through a traffic jam.
Do you see the difference?
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Posted by Leszek Karlik on July 10, 2008, 10:53 am
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:52:49 +0200, Michael R. Kesti
[...]
> Lane splitting is different from cutting in line at, say, the grocery
> check out line. When a person cuts in line at the grocery, those who
> are waiting in line are inconvenienced by having to wait longer to check
> out. This is not the case for lane-splitting motorcyclists. A lane
> splitter adds no time to cagers' wait to get through a traffic jam.
What's more, the lane-splitting motorcycle does not take up space in the
traffic jam and the cars behind him can get through the jam faster.
I can't understand why lane splitting is illegal in some countries.
Luckily for me, filtering is legal here in Poland. :-) And while a
few years ago cagers tended to react badly to lane splitters, nowadays
they usually make more space. Hostile reactions are pretty rare.
Leslie
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Posted by Michael R. Kesti on July 10, 2008, 8:54 pm
Leszek Karlik wrote:
>What's more, the lane-splitting motorcycle does not take up space in the
>traffic jam and the cars behind him can get through the jam faster.
I tend to omit that because most people are short any rats' asses to give
about those behind them and the difference is too small to be significant.
>I can't understand why lane splitting is illegal in some countries.
And 49 of the 50 US states!
>Luckily for me, filtering is legal here in Poland. :-) And while a
>few years ago cagers tended to react badly to lane splitters, nowadays
>they usually make more space. Hostile reactions are pretty rare.
What do think has changed?
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