Pros And Cons Of Lane Spliting

Here I am captured in this irritating street where all I can do is listen to music and look at Facebook. I am waiting for cars to start moving and continue with their destination. Little do I know that ahead of me is a two hour traffic. I am already tired, bored, and furious. I cannot believe I took this road home instead of my usual route. Why do I have to try new things? I should stick to what I know. While I sit in the drivers’ sit I am still wondering why I had the bright idea of taking a new way home, a way that I had little knowledge of.

Drivers are not all are inherently bad people who are just out to run down bicyclists, just as white people are not all white supremacists; however, there is an unknown bias we all have due to the influence of media and infrastructure. This cannot be undone easily, it can be, but it takes an abundance of work, dialogue, and understanding between countless people. Dowsett explains this by saying, “... Bike lanes are relatively new, and still just kind of an appendage on a system that is inherently car-centric.”

motorists that cyclists who use bicycle-sharing schemes tend to be inexperienced riders who do not follow the traffic rules”(United Nations 18).

Therefore while they are distracted and driving their focus must alternate between whatever other task is at hand and driving. This draws their attention away from the road, which can potentially lead to an accident. A crosswalk is generally designed to provide a safe path for pedestrians to cross by marking the designated path that people can cross and in which motorist should be able to see. “Should” is the keyword, because as the paint fades, chips, and wears from traffic; the path becomes harder for motorist to see. The consequence of this is a driver will be less aware that someone may step into the road trying to cross at these points. Laws and legislation are beginning to crack down on these drivers but the roads are still a dangerous place for a person to be.

people when a train is going across. Motorcyclists should not try to swerve or get a better

In a report done by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, it was found that there was a 5.6% increase in the number of lives lost, on the roads, last year (Spector, U.S Traffic Fatalities Rose 5.6% in 2016, Wall Street Journal). This brings up a recurring theme of reckless driving in the US. As described in the 1920s based book The Great Gatsby, and in the news recently, we’ve used cars recklessly. In both the news currently, and in The Great Gatsby, there have been examples of Americans being reckless drivers.

Some automobilists may oppose lane-splitting because they believe it places unnecessary stress upon automobile drivers and because lane-splitting subjects motorcyclists, automobilists, and even pedestrians to needless risks. Alvarez implies that automobilists like to solely think about the cars directly in front, behind, and beside them. They do not want to share a lane with a motorcyclist and worry about possibly hitting the motorcycle if they decided to switch lanes or even open their car door. (3). While neither abolishing nor specifically legalizing the practice, CA.gov DMV Handbook: Motorcycle cautions: “…riding between rows of stopped or moving vehicles in the same lane can leave you vulnerable. A vehicle could turn suddenly or change

Imagine a large family oriented neighborhood with about 140 homes, a small knit community. The main road into the neighborhood is a straight road to a stop sign; it has fifteen homes on each side of the street filled with families. This road leads in and out of the subdivision to 110 other residents of Manor Walk, and is the only way to enter and exit. Let’s say the neighbors are late or in a hurry, and are rushing the only way out is on the main road. This means they are driving 30 to 40 miles per hour by your home just because they are late. Traffic activity is the most hectic on this road every day. The families that live along Manor Dr, now have to be even more cautious of their children playing outside because of all the speeding vehicles. Their children cannot freely ride their bikes in the street, because of the road racers. Many kids complain to their parents

Although he strives to remain neutral, his writing makes it seem as if he accepts the German’s ideas more so than the American’s ideas. Toward the end of the article, Budiansky explains that cars moving over a network of roadways have many mathematical features in common with the behavior of other things that flow over networks, such as data carried by telephone lines and the internet (Budiansky 317). The mathematics of networks is well studied, but math is not the only thing that computes to figuring out how to relieve our highways of traffic congestion. Many other factors come into play when looking for solutions to this problem, such as humans are not predictable and at any point in time something could go wrong while they are driving on the highway. All in all, Stephen Budiansky did an outstanding job as he was writing this passage for his audience. Through the use of imagery, metaphors and multiple analogies, he made the information understandable for those who were reading it. The Physics of Gridlock is a well written passage written by Stephen Budiansky that explains the troubles that we face with traffic

The number of left turning vehicles per cycle is examined next. If there are less than two left turning vehicles per cycle during the peak hour, then a permissive left turn phase is adequate. It there are more than two left turning vehicles per cycle, the next parameter, speed limit, is assessed. Data collected showed that on average there were three left turning vehicles per cycle during the peak hour. If the speed limit or 85th percentile of the opposing approaching were greater than 45 mph, a protected left turn phase would be warranted. The observed speed limit at the intersection was 35 mph.

It is absolutely absurd that people have to put other people’s lives at risk because of their own idiotic impulses while they’re behind the wheel. Honestly why can’t people just simply focus on the road and let the other people in the car focus on everything else? It shouldn’t be that hard for your friend to go into your phone and pick the song that you want to listen to, you don’t need to be on your phone trying to multitask which might end up with your family taking over the

Some motorcyclists act dangerously while lane splitting as Collin Woodward explains, an editor on CheatSheet.com “When most people think of lane splitting, they usually imagine some guy on a Hayabusa flying down the highway doing 135 miles per hour, clipping the occasional side-view mirror, and generally putting themselves and everybody else at risk of having an accident.” Speeding while lane splitting is the number one way riders get injured while lane splitting. A lot of the riders that fly by think that all because a 4 wheel vehicle can’t lane split means that it’s a lane all to

Some motorcyclists act dangerously while lane splitting as Collin Woodward explains, an editor on CheatSheet.com “When most people think of lane splitting, they usually imagine some guy on a Hayabusa flying down the highway doing 135 miles per hour, clipping the occasional side-view mirror, and generally putting themselves and everybody else at risk of having an accident.” Speeding while lane splitting is the number one way riders get injured while lane splitting. A lot of the riders that fly by think that all because a 4 wheel vehicle can’t lane split means that it’s a lane all to

Poor lane discipline – some drivers are all over the road and they don’t seem

When driving, sometimes it is difficult to focus on the road which makes it easy to forget that the roads are shared by everyone and not for your exclusive use.