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02-22-13 | 11:35 AM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by spare_wheel

passing vehicles at the curb is not lane splitting. in fact, i often lane split is to avoid bike lane/bike box right hook risk.
bike boxes have been a deadly failure in pdx.

Well, technically, it is lane splitting. There's someone in the lane and you are splitting the lane to get to the front of the line. All filtering is a form of lane splitting. The bike box lane is just a formalization of filtering and if it is deadly like you say, then 'filtering' to the front of the line would be just as hazardous. If you are going to filter... i.e. lane split like you are implying... on the driver's side , how do you deal with the line suddenly starting to move. It would be easy to get trapped in between two lines of moving traffic with no were to go. A motorcycle might be able to deal with it because they have speed on their side but a bicyclists is stuck.

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