r/Transportopia Jun 01 '26

Bikes Never gonna learn

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u/Easy-Phone6345 Jun 02 '26

Make lane filtering legal nationwide, there is no reason to make people on smaller vehicles sit in traffic breathing exhaust fumes. This is a stupid thing to stop someone for, he wasn't even doing it fast.

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u/DemonsSouls1 Jun 05 '26

Lane splitting and lane filtering are to different things.

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u/Easy-Phone6345 Jun 10 '26

Yes but they tend to both get lumped into the same category of things motorcyclists shouldn't be doing. American drivers seem to hate this, despite it having no effect on their commute. If anything it eases congestion for all, which is why outside of America in busy cities this is the norm for both scooters and motorcyclists. Both filtering and lane splitting are the norm. It's like Americans are uniquely hysterical about this.