From: blockedofcourse@foo.invalid   
      
   On 12/3/2025 3:51 PM, bitrex wrote:   
   > On 12/3/2025 5:03 PM, Don Y wrote:   
   >> I find this unnerving.  Mainly because you don't EXPECT people in   
   >> those places!   
   >>   
   >> How widespread is this, elsewhere?   
   >   
   > All lane filtering/lane splitting is Illegal in Massachusetts, not that it   
   > matters. The ~25% of motorcyclists who aren't nuts don't do it and the other   
   > 75% seem to pretty much do whatever they want, anyway.   
   >   
   > I can see why it's legal out West the lanes are huge, the roads are straight   
   > and laid out in a sensible way, probably actually helps with biker safety,   
   > depending.   
      
   Lane filtering only applies where traffic is stopped.  Presumably, stopped   
   traffic on a MA roadway is just as easily navigated as anywhere else.   
      
   > But in compact cities with tight winding roads like Boston, Providence, and   
   > Worcester it seems like a good way to die. Sort of like how riding any kind   
   of   
   > two wheel vehicle in those cities seems to me. I've never seen a motorcyclist   
   > pulled over that I can recall, the police here seem to take a   
   > let-God-sort-them-out approach to bikers and traffic laws.   
      
   We have a fair number of motorcycle and bicycle accidents/fatalities, here.   
   Yet, the claim is that lane filtering "protects" the riders (from being   
   ass-ended while stopped?).   
      
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