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Originally Posted by citizensadvocate
Interesting in the US about 35 states have statues officially banning riding motorcycles between stopped lanes of traffic.
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i.e Arizona 28-903 C. A person shall not operate a motorcycle between the lanes of traffic or between adjacent rows of vehicles.
The other 15 states including California have no specific laws regarding the practice. Though whether its tolerated in practice appears in mixed results. With California being notoriously tolerant on the practice. There are states that while they have no official prohibition on the practice but cite motorcycles using the blanket codes for all drivers i.e staying in a single lane. While California does have such provision in its traffic code its seldom in practice used to nail motorcyclists for driving between lanes unless that cop thinks the biker was being exceptionally dangerous.
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Though these 15 states including California all have a provision like CVC 21658.
Whenever any roadway has been divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for traffic in one direction, the following rules apply:
(a) A vehicle shall be driven as nearly as practical entirely within a single lane and shall not be moved from the lane until such movement can be made with reasonable safety.
Though whether a motorcyclist would be nailed for it do to the act of filtering can vary greatly. In practice its unlikely that a motorcycle safely riding past rows of stopped traffic would be nailed with such a violation but those splitting past fast moving traffic are much more likely to be nailed.
Though there had been videos of cars doing it as well, guess if there are no rules on it for any vehicle in those 15 states.
Guess its should be perfectly legal in California to do these as long as you don't force anyone off the road or hit any one.
As the code doesn't say whether its legal or illegal
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Originally Posted by Cruz Azul Guy
An easy answer to the OP’s question = every country in the world, with the exception of U.S.(outside of CA) and Canada.
Everybody else on this planet splits lanes.
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Originally Posted by citizensadvocate
Though there are of course countries like in India, or some other parts of Asia where in practice vehicles of all shapes and sizes drive with no regard for lanes whatsoever regardless of what the official traffic codes say.
Over there it seems like if your bike, cyclo, rickshaw, car, van, taxi, truck, or bus fits go for it.
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Look at this, everyone lane splits, not just the motorcycles or even the famous Indian three wheeled taxis, but everyone, even the big bus, as well as the trucks. Not certain what the official traffic code say about it though. Universally there are requirements in most areas to require vehicles to drive within a single lane
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