{"id":10341,"date":"2021-05-27T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=10341"},"modified":"2021-05-30T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T15:16:38","slug":"oregon-allows-lanesplitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/oregon-allows-lanesplitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Allows Lanesplitting–Not"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heading up to Brian Head, in Utah.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

I hadn’t even heard it was being considered and now I get a note that Oregon has in fact approved lanesplitting, although the governor has not yet signed the bill. Yahoo. Little by little acceptance of this entirely sensible practice continues to spread across the country.<\/p>\n

UPDATE–Much to the surprise of many, the governor vetoed this bill. Here’s the story: https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2021\/05\/26\/gov-kate-brown-vetoes-bill-allowing-lane-splitting-by-oregon-motorcyclists\/<\/p>\n

Of course, each state handles it differently so that will make for some real confusion at some point. California is the most permissive. Here’s a breakdown of what Oregon will be enacting, courtesy of a post on Adventure Rider<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SB574 would legalize lane sharing under limited conditions:
\n Highways only:
\n lane-sharing allowed only on roads with a posted speed limit of 50MPH or higher
\n Traffic on the road:
\n must be stopped, or moving at 10 miles per hour or less
\n The rider:
\n may travel no more than 10 miles per hour faster than traffic
\n must not impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic
\n must safely merge with traffic, if traffic speed exceeds 10 miles per hour
\n must pass traffic traveling in the same direction
\n Riders cannot lane share:
\n between a traffic lane and the curb and bicycle lane (on either side)
\n between a traffic lane and a row of parked vehicles (on either side)
\n on the right side of the rightmost lane of traffic, or the left side of the leftmost lane of traffic
\n in a school zone
\n Riders should also use common sense when lane sharing, and err on the side of caution: \u201cIf you can\u2019t fit, don\u2019t split\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That looks fairly reasonable to me. Three cheers for Oregon.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

We know you’re a poser if you spend more time shining your bike than riding it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hadn’t even heard it was being considered and now I get a note that Oregon has in fact approved lanesplitting, although the governor has not yet signed the bill. Yahoo. Little by little acceptance of this entirely sensible practice continues to spread across the country. UPDATE–Much to the surprise of many, the governor vetoed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[138,1145],"class_list":["post-10341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-legislation","tag-lane-splitting","tag-oregon-motorcycle-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10358,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341\/revisions\/10358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}