An important notice for Colorado drivers: Starting in August motorcycles will be allowed to pass stopped vehicles by squeezing between lanes of traffic – a practice called lane filtering.
Those crashes, while found to be less dangerous than full-speed collisions at intersections, represent injuries, property damage, and certainly during the 1.2% or 11 crashes that were fatal, emotional trauma for the other drivers involved.An estimated 65% of riders wear helmets, CDOT reports.Editorial: Growing conflicts around bike lanes are a sign something isn’t working
The bill signed by Gov. Jared Polis does require the state to collect robust data to see if lane filtering is indeed as safe as some data has shown from Oregon and Australia.
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