r1limited Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 http://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5378&Year=2017 Get invloved call your rep be a positive influence and articulate why this bill will save lifes. Lane Splitting is safe if done safely I have done this for years in Calif. Right now it is back in Commitee where they the Oligarchs can sit on it for ever. Bill History 2017 REGULAR SESSION Jan 20 First reading, referred to Transportation. (View Original Bill) Jan 30 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Transportation at 3:30 PM. (Committee Materials) Feb 6 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Transportation at 3:30 PM. (Committee Materials) TRAN - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (View 1st Substitute) (Majority Report) Minority; do not pass. (Minority Report) Minority; without recommendation. (Minority Report) Feb 8 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. Feb 14 On motion, referred to Rules Green Sheet for second reading. Feb 24 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. Feb 28 1st substitute bill substituted (TRAN 17). (View 1st Substitute) Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. Third reading, passed; yeas, 32; nays, 17; absent, 0; excused, 0. (View Roll Calls) IN THE HOUSE Mar 2 First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). Apr 23 By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading. IN THE SENATE Placed on Rules Green Sheet. 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION Apr 24 By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. 2017 2ND SPECIAL SESSION May 23 By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. 2017 3RD SPECIAL SESSION Jun 21 By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.” --Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member hippiebikerchick Posted June 22, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted June 22, 2017 I hope it passes. It should be legal everywhere; it definitely reduces congestion because we use space that cages cannot use. Illegitimi non carborundum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beemer Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 I wish it were legal around here, just last night some dipstick in the passing lane stayed right beside another guy, effectively blocking me. Although I would've liked to lane split and pass him (I feel I can do it safely) I'm not so confident that people that intentionally block that way are going to let me remain safe when I get next to them. I wonder how many people are getting hurt by people bumping into them, cutting them off or people not lane splitting safely. Is that the reason they want to stop lane splitting, people getting hurt doing it? There's always a risk factor in about anything you do, no reason to stop a good thing but I don't know the details on this. Why they do what they do. Beemer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1limited Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 I wish it were legal around here, just last night some dipstick in the passing lane stayed right beside another guy, effectively blocking me. Although I would've liked to lane split and pass him (I feel I can do it safely) I'm not so confident that people that intentionally block that way are going to let me remain safe when I get next to them. I wonder how many people are getting hurt by people bumping into them, cutting them off or people not lane splitting safely. Is that the reason they want to stop lane splitting, people getting hurt doing it? There's always a risk factor in about anything you do, no reason to stop a good thing but I don't know the details on this. Why they do what they do. http://www.cycleworld.com/2015/06/02/ama-study-finds-lane-splitting-increases-rider-saftey It is about education, if this passes in WA I would hope there is a BIG move to educate cagers here. A lot of road rage goes on here and I have seen cagers and have been part of cagers intentionally Mucking with you as a motorcyclist. In Calif where I am originally from my experience was mainly out of state morons because they are well out of state morons who are just out of state morons BUt there are instate morons too The actual report and studyhttp://www.ots.ca.gov/pdf/Publications/Motorcycle-Lane-Splitting-and-Safety-2015.pdf “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.” --Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbatrossCafe Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 This bill is dead/pointless till Judy Clibborn is removed from Chair of the Transportation Committee. She has been there for ~8 years and literally refuses to put this bill up for a hearing. Pretty sure nothing can be done until next legislative session. It has passed the senate multiple times, and would spark interesting debate in the house, but unfortunately it will literally NEVER get there because she says "I don't think it is worthy of our time." So one woman effectively kills a pseudo-democratic process because she doesn't support the bill and removes it from the House's debate schedule. How can we question Lane Sharing's merits if we can never talk about it? I've seen this bill die 3 years in a row (and that's just as long as I've been paying attention, I'm sure it has been going for longer). It is very frustrating that we get a few weeks of hope with this bill every spring and once it fails it can't be brought up again for another 11 months. Don't waste your whole life waiting for some dogmatic woman to give this bill even just a chance. I have been mostly filtering and on occasion splitting in WA for 2 years. I've been ticketed once, but otherwise had absolutely no other issues. Just a month ago a motorcyclist here was rear ended at a stoplight by a driver on heroin and killed. For this reason, I will continue to take my safety into my own hands. Worth it. Dual headlights or deathhttp://fz07.org/thread/5384/albatrosscafes-galleryhttp://fz07.org/thread/5174/dual-headlight-upgrade-completed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1limited Posted June 23, 2017 Author Share Posted June 23, 2017 That is part of the problem with the WA DOT system, these Oligarchs answer to no one. Sad these socialist communist parasites get the rubber stamp simply because a D is on the end of the title. But then the % of minions in this state are endorsing this socialist nazi regime because this is what they are, Maoist East wind followers “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.” --Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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