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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
People here have issues with lane splitting not because they perceive it to be dangerous. But they don't like the idea of someone ''budging'' them and moving ahead.
People get mad when people drive to the end of the merge lane to zipper merge, even though it's what you're supposed to do. People get mad when you try to pass them, sometimes accelerating to cut you off and prevent you from moving ahead. Heck, people get mad when you walk faster them then to the front of the till at the grocery store.
Lane splitting work perfectly fine in many other countries. In Deerfoot going 100+ km/h with people weaving all over the place? Probably not. But in gridlock. Absolutely 100% it should be allowed.
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I believe the actual rule in CA is that you can lane split as long as you aren't going above the speed limit.
So if the limit is 50, and everyone is slowing to 40 due to traffic volume, motorcycles can still lane split as long as they don't go over 50mph. If all traffic is flowing at the posted limit, then no splitting allowed.
Makes tons of sense to me. I guess people just can't stand the fact that someone 'got ahead of them', even though a motorcycle splitting a lane has zero bearing on you getting somewhere faster.