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Lane Splitting Legislation introduced in CA

I was thinking about this the other day. Why not take control of the inevitable? There is going to be a lane sharing bill. That has become obvious. There's no reason that we should not embrace this as an opportunity to get it right, rather than fight it and get a bad law.

Also, if we specifically legalize lane splitting in CA, we will have created a model upon which other states can launch their platform. Oregon and Washington have both had lane sharing legislation in the recent past, and they have both failed.

I'm only on board with this if the VC section reads:

"A two-wheeled motorcycle or motor-driven cycle may ride between two lanes of traffic moving in the same direction."

But that will never happen, will it? Everybody has to pee in the pot and make sure everybody is doing it the "right" way. The bill will get so complex and absurd the lawmakers will just say, "screw this! Let's just ban it."
 
Who's going to have coffee with Beall and ask him WTF is up with this bill? A flood of angry motorcyclists would make him think twice about being involved with this issue:

https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/Pu...s/SD15/70_Coffee_with_Senator_Jim_Beall_.html

Sign up and go!

I wanted to go but I have an offsite meeting - couldn't make it back up in time from down there.

Supposedly he's pro-moto. Maybe just talking with him gets us more at this point than showing up with an angry mob. :cool
 
Hmm. I'll be free that morning. I imagine I won't have much more time than it would take for me to ask him to please consider that lanesplitting has been pretty much a non-issue up until this point, and motorcyclists would be very endeared to him for keeping it that way. Unless the law specifically legalizes/protects it, and NOT in the horrible (weenie) way the placeholder was written.
 
Well I looked at the bottom of my paycheck and saw this advertisement of moto safety on the last couple of lines. Glad it specifically states to share the road. Maybe they don't mean by splitting, but that was my first impression, its good to see nontheless. I bet no one reads the bottom notes anyway.

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carry on..
 
Well I looked at the bottom of my paycheck and saw this advertisement of moto safety on the last couple of lines. Glad it specifically states to share the road. Maybe they don't mean by splitting, but that was my first impression, its good to see nontheless. I bet no one reads the bottom notes anyway.

carry on..

Cool! Even if it doesn't get read by too many people.
 
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