California AB 51 Lane Splitting Bill Unanimously Passes Full Senate Vote
On Monday, August 1, 2016, California bill AB 51, the lane splitting bill, passed the full California State Senate in a 38-0 vote. AB 51 recently passed the Senate Transportation Committee in an 11-0 vote. The bill now returns to the California State Assembly for approval.
All California motorcyclists who are interested in seeing AB 51 passed should contact their state senator and ask them to support the bill. You can find out who your representative is here.
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Anyone interested in watching a video of the vote can view it on Lanesplittingislegal.com (Caution: very boring!).
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Whether splitting is dangerous or not depends almost entirely on one thing....the attitude (read-RESENTMENT) of drivers, either their mantra "you, on the motorbike, are NOT getting ahead of me!" or more recently " I haven't time to be checking mirrors and so forth, I hafta stay CONNECTED" (or "I've almost found them all, I'm not stopping to worry about who's close to me in traffic!".
If ya wanna see how it really becomes a contact sport, check out any of the Driving (or riding) in Russia vids on Youtube. You'll be stunned.
I've seen a lot of dumb laws come out of California, but this has to be the dumbest.