Petition Seeks Legal Lane-Splitting

If you’re in favor of the California practice of lane-splitting – riding between lanes of slow-moving traffic on freeways – and would like to see it become legal everywhere, there’s a petition on the White House website that you might want to sign. Published Dec. 2, the petition seeks “to make lane splitting a nationally recognized act.”

Lane-splitting is currently only legal in California. The petition notes, “Lane splitting is something the rest of the world allows. In areas with congested traffic, it allows motorcycle riders to use the space in between 2 lanes of cars traveling in the same direction to advance through traffic. This act reduces car traffic because of the space a motorcycle takes up behind a car.”

The petition has a goal of obtaining 100,000 names by Jan. 1, but only had 12,570 as of this morning. To read and to sign, go here.