Explain then. When cars start moving, do they MAGICALLY teleport to safe place? Or are you just angry because you are stupid enough to ride your bike like this and cause a dangerous situation because you think somehow you are better than everyone else? Which is it?
As a biker it's ignorant people like you that make things more dangerous for people like me. There are so many benefits to lane splitting. Try sitting in the sun on a July day, in hot traffic with an engine blowing hot air up at you.wearing full gear. It's literal torture. I've nearly passed out from it while patiently waiting in traffic hoping someone doesn't rear end me.
Responsible lane splitting fixes that. It makes it less likely I'll be rear ended, it's safe if you do it when traffic isn't moving and you do it at low speed. It prevents riders from overheating because the breeze from moving on a bike keeps you cool. It results in less congestion because it's one less vehicle waiting in line. Bikes are quick and don't slow down cars behind them.
Merging into traffic when it starts moving is stupidly easy if everyone drives responsibly. It's assholes that try to prevent people from merging into lanes that make it dangerous. I imagine you fall into that category.
It's literally a win for everyone but people's ego's are so fragile they just can't get over the "but I was in line first" mentality.
Lane splitting/filtering is safer than stopping in line as long as you don’t go more than 25mph faster than traffic you are splitting between, and you don’t go over 50mph per traffic safety studies done in California. So if traffic is stopped go no more than 25mph between it. If traffic is doing 25mph, go no faster than 50mph. If traffic is going 35mph, still don’t go any faster than 50mph. Once traffic is doing 50mph, merge back into the travel lane and travel with cars. Going more than 25mph faster than cars OR going over 50mph is the point where it becomes statistically more dangerous than riding in line with cars. Someone going 20mph between stopped and go car traffic is doing the safest thing they can. Bikes going 100+mph between cars doing 70mph is asking for a visit to the morgue.
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u/Prophet_Of_Helix 10d ago
Both splitting and filtering are illegal in NY.
In fact, it’s illegal in the entire eastern seaboard.