French ban on motorbike lane filtering under review
Following well-organised and extensive protest rides by bikers on 20 February, the French press is reporting that the road safety agency Securite Routiere will launch a new trial to reassess the safety of the practice.
Lane filtering was never officially legal in France and a five-year trial from 2016 to 2021 concluded it was unsafe following 16 fatal accidents during the period.
After the recent protests it has been decided that at least 12 departments in France will run experiments from June this year to gauge the safety of allowing motorbikes to pass between queuing lanes of traffic in some conditions.
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As a personal comment, it was always an amazement to me that the very high-speed filtering on Paris' Boulevard Périphérique didn't result in dozens of deaths each year.
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