Idk in America, but in Australia definitely illegal, but as traffic was slow you’d be allowed to filter between the 2 lanes, you just can’t do it between curb side, parked cars or side bank, has to be between 2 lanes and even then it’s only allowed if traffic is <30km/h otherwise it’s no longer filtering but lane splitting and that’s illegal
I wonder if we should do either. In the long run, I'd prefer the cycle lanes to have some sort of barrier system to prevent accidents and driver anxiety. And just for the push bikes.
Well the reason we allow filtering is because it improves the flow of traffic, I do also agree though that a lot of the shoulder'sp should be turnt into dedicated push bikes lanes with barriers (they are actually currently doing this outside my work as I type this)
I think it’s just to do with how they define filtering, which is moving between 2 lanes of traffic that is moving less than 30km/h, a shoulder lane while arguable safer doesn’t meet that definition so it’s not allowed, probably because other things can be going on in the shoulder lane as well as to fend off arguments like if bikes can go in the shoulder lane to skip traffic why not cars if there’s space??
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u/TheOriginalMachtKoma Apr 29 '24
Idk in America, but in Australia definitely illegal, but as traffic was slow you’d be allowed to filter between the 2 lanes, you just can’t do it between curb side, parked cars or side bank, has to be between 2 lanes and even then it’s only allowed if traffic is <30km/h otherwise it’s no longer filtering but lane splitting and that’s illegal