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2023 Motorcycle Filtering Bills: Senate Bill 5401 and Partner House Bill 1063

In the last 5 years Utah, Montana, and Arizona have passed laws allowing motorcycles to more flexibly utilize the roadway to increase riders safety and reduce traffic. This year we are looking to provide this same flexibility to Washington state riders with Senate Bill 5401.

We need to contact our representatives, ESPECIALLY if you are in ANY of the districts of the Transportation committee members provided below, and let them know you support SB5401, and ask them to request a hearing be scheduled in the transportation committee before the deadline of February 25th. Once you've done that yo

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2023 Motorcycle Filtering Bills: Senate Bill 5401 and Partner House Bill 1063

In the last 5 years Utah, Montana, and Arizona have passed laws allowing motorcycles to more flexibly utilize the roadway to increase riders safety and reduce traffic. This year we are looking to provide this same flexibility to Washington state riders with Senate Bill 5401.

We need to contact our representatives, ESPECIALLY if you are in ANY of the districts of the Transportation committee members provided below, and let them know you support SB5401, and ask them to request a hearing be scheduled in the transportation committee before the deadline of February 25th. Once you've done that yo

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2023 Motorcycle Filtering Bills: Senate Bill 5401 and Partner House Bill 1063

In the last 5 years Utah, Montana, and Arizona have passed laws allowing motorcycles to more flexibly utilize the roadway to increase riders safety and reduce traffic. This year we are looking to provide this same flexibility to Washington state riders with Senate Bill 5401.

We need to contact our representatives, ESPECIALLY if you are in ANY of the districts of the Transportation committee members provided below, and let them know you support SB5401, and ask them to request a hearing be scheduled in the transportation committee before the deadline of February 25th. Once you've done that yo

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2023 Motorcycle Filtering Bills: Senate Bill 5401 and Partner House Bill 1063

In the last 5 years Utah, Montana, and Arizona have passed laws allowing motorcycles to more flexibly utilize the roadway to increase riders safety and reduce traffic. This year we are looking to provide this same flexibility to Washington state riders with Senate Bill 5401.

We need to contact our representatives, ESPECIALLY if you are in ANY of the districts of the Transportation committee members provided below, and let them know you support SB5401, and ask them to request a hearing be scheduled in the transportation committee before the deadline of February 25th. Once you've done that yo

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FYI, legislative sessions are in session for 2023, deadlines are coming up for submitting and hearing bills, so if you want to make progress this year now is the time to organize.

Resources:

Here is the UC Berkley study from 2015 that has been the foundation of every lane splitting bill passed in the US. Here's a few important quotes:

  • "Lane-splitting appears to be a relatively safe motorcycle riding strategy if done in traffic moving at 50 MPH or less and if motorcyclists do not exceed the speed of other vehicles by more than 15 MPH."
  • "Lane-splitting motorcyclists were also
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