cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49966708
I know the Yamm won’t be popular here but there is a good point here that lane filtering reduces traffic and improves safety. If you are in Texas maybe this is something you might want to join in.
CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:09 Filtering Defined 2:30 My Plan 3:40 Why I’m Doing This 6:53 The Problem With Car Based Infrastructure 8:48 How We Got Here 11:21 The Superior Transportation 14:34 In Conclusion
As a rider myself, I think lane splitting or filtering is a terrible idea, specifically in Texas. Texans are some of the most oblivious, most entitled drivers I’ve ever experienced, and until that driving style changes, having some extra lane capabilities just for motorcycles sounds like accidents waiting to happen from drivers who can barely handle the existing rules.
I think lane splitting or filtering is a terrible idea, specifically in Texas
Those are two different things tho. Splitting is in moving traffic and for sure dangerous. Filtering is just moving to the front in still traffic. Filtering is safer as you cannot get rear ended. Moving to the front also means you are actually moving faster as some red lights are so backed up you can be sitting in them for a few cycles.
I get that, and I think in other states with better drivers this could work, but Texans are uniquely horrible drivers. I have driven and ridden in other states, and I have never had to be as defensive as I am in Texas.
I’m aware that they are two different traffic maneuvers, but I still hold that both are not good ideas in Texas.
Well that is even more reason to make filtering legal so we can get out of the road sooner.
Filtering is safer
according to you.
make filtering legal so we can get out of the road sooner.
yeah I get that’s what’s really driving it.
Why the fuck are cyclists so self involved, you gotta have your own tiny internal combustion engine to haul around one fucking person, spewing fumes because there’s no attempt at actual emissions controls, now, you should be able to scoot to the front of every intersection when there’s a light because your safety is more important?
what an entitled group
Lamo at your whole point. Total crab brain. So my transport is able to filter but your feelings want me stuck in traffic and vulnerable to a rear end? Talk about self centered…
I want you stuck in traffic? I’d rather you weren’t on the roads at all dipshit.
hope you wear a helmet tho because odds are something’s gonna ruin your shit either way. watched too many friends have horrific accidents because they were ‘in control’, ‘a bike was safer’ yadda yadda bullshit - and I liked them, I give two fucks about you. so go out there, catch cops and traumatize your loved ones by vroom vrooming right away
MC is inherently dangerous and having car people mandate I act like one and not let me filter in red lights and jams putting in me in extra danger and lowering down traffic. In form yourself… Dipshit.
aw poor baby, you gonna cry now?
people won’t let me cut to the head of the line, whaaa, my saafety, whereas if you were actually concerned about your safety you’d get off the donor cycle, you petulant child.
Why should everyone else have to look out for you when you won’t look out for you? MC is inherently dangerous, ya? so stop, moron.
in form? to inform you, that’s a single word, dipshit.
people won’t let me cut to the head of the line,
What line bro? Are you in a race? I’m just headed to my destination and my vehicle is able to pass through. From my point your the petulant child throwing a tantrum.
aw poor baby, you gonna cry now?
PS I’m matching your own energy.
hope youre also gonna drop er fees so thr idiots filtering dont get reamed for it /s
