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SquidTips OP t1_j5xa3bl wrote
SquidTips OP t1_j5x9x3q wrote
Reply to comment by kwiknkleen in Calling all Washington Motorcycle, Moped, and Motorscooter riders! We need your support to pass Motorcycle filtering this year in Washington! by SquidTips
I own a house, but I have consistently voted for every increase in housing taxes to support the government and services it provides.
Every law that passes shouldn't NEED to help EVERY person, that's not how you build just and equitable systems.
SquidTips OP t1_j5x9l55 wrote
Reply to comment by Designer_Hotel_5210 in Calling all Washington Motorcycle, Moped, and Motorscooter riders! We need your support to pass Motorcycle filtering this year in Washington! by SquidTips
I mean, speed limits don't stop everyone from speeding, so I'm guessing the riders you don't like aren't prevented from splitting now, so you're really just punishing the most diligent and law abiding right now.
SquidTips OP t1_j5x9jpm wrote
Reply to comment by M4jorP4nye in Calling all Washington Motorcycle, Moped, and Motorscooter riders! We need your support to pass Motorcycle filtering this year in Washington! by SquidTips
I mean, speed limits don't stop everyone from speeding, so I'm guessing the riders you don't like aren't prevented from splitting now, so you're really just punishing the most diligent and law abiding right now.
SquidTips OP t1_j5w9adb wrote
Reply to comment by kwiknkleen in Calling all Washington Motorcycle, Moped, and Motorscooter riders! We need your support to pass Motorcycle filtering this year in Washington! by SquidTips
To answer that question requires first asking, what are roads for anyway?
The answer I think most people would give is that they are a logistical investment that our community has made in order to move humans from one place to another across our communities. That seems to be the logic behind creating commuter and bus only lanes, to proiritize throughput over individual 'Fairness'.
From this lens, lane splitting demonstrably reduces traffic by allowing greater throughput. It also incentivizes more motorcycle usage which creates a positive feedback loop for reducing traffic.
SquidTips OP t1_j5vz1e9 wrote
Reply to comment by AnonyMouseLeo in Calling all Washington Motorcycle, Moped, and Motorscooter riders! We need your support to pass Motorcycle filtering this year in Washington! by SquidTips
Some riders might not understand how to execute it safely, and I would never want anyone to be forced to do it, however I have done it for over 10 years in the Seattle area without a collision or a ticket.
SquidTips OP t1_j5vlsk8 wrote
Reply to comment by AnonyMouseLeo in Calling all Washington Motorcycle, Moped, and Motorscooter riders! We need your support to pass Motorcycle filtering this year in Washington! by SquidTips
What you’ve demonstrated here is that motorcycle fatalities are a problem on WA roads, and that is what lane splitting and filtering demonstrably to reduce.
By educating riders on when and how to safely filter through traffic, motorcycle accidents become less fatal, because they are happening at lower speeds. This reality is born out in the UC Berkeley study linked in the above post: > Lane-splitting motorcyclists were also injured much less frequently during their collisions. Lanesplitting riders were less likely to suffer head injury (9% vs 17%), torso injury (19% vs 29%), extremity injury (60% vs 66%), and fatal injury (1.2% vs 3.0%). Lane-splitting motorcyclists were equally likely to suffer neck injury, compared with non-lane-splitting motorcyclists.
SquidTips OP t1_j5xbh9i wrote
Reply to comment by M4jorP4nye in Calling all Washington Motorcycle, Moped, and Motorscooter riders! We need your support to pass Motorcycle filtering this year in Washington! by SquidTips
Hopefully we make more motorcycle riders like in Europe, and that reduces congestion for all!