CA - Lanesplitting bill is scheduled for a hearing on June / 14 /2016

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Subject: Urge your legislator to support lanesplitting in California

Lanesplitting bill is scheduled for a hearing on June 14Tell your state senator to support California Assembly Bill 51!  Support Lane Splitting California Assembly Bill 51 would re-affirm the California Highway Patrol’s authority to issue lane-splitting guidelines for the state’s roadways. This important legislation is now scheduled for a hearing on June 14, 2016, in the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee.

Good that will help a lot we need this to help ABATE     gill  -------Original Message------- From: glennphillips01@comcast.net Date: 6/8/2016 4:41:50 AM To: milligan, william Cc: BOD, ABATE;  sr, nick;  Cromwell, Carol Subject: Re: [ABATE] FW: Urge your legislator to support lanesplitting in California Lombardo and I will be at the hearing on June 14th. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "'william milligan' via ABATE Board Members" <Board@abate.org> To: "ABATE BOD" <board@abate.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 5:01:01 PM Subject: Re: [ABATE] FW: Urge your legislator to support lanesplitting in California Board ,members There is a good possibility that I will be attending the June 14th Senate trans and Housing hearing That is scheduled For June 14th.   Do we need to e mail the committee members and ask then to support the bill  AB-51 as amended June 1st.. Yes or now I await your decision on this  issue as  there is a limited time before the hearing on Tuesday june14th.   Sporty.     On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 4:37 PM, william milligan <williammilligan285@yahoo.com> wrote:   This is posted by the ama and shouldn't abate be doing something as  well to get the folks to support this bill ab51 in senate trans  housing committee next week. regards sporty      On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 12:22 PM, wayne phillips <BigWayne19@Comcast.NET> wrote:  Subject: Urge your legislator to support lanesplitting in California | Lanesplitting bill is scheduled for a hearing on June 14Tell your state senator to support California Assembly Bill 51!  Support Lane Splitting California Assembly Bill 51 would re-affirm the California Highway Patrol’s authority to issue lane-splitting guidelines for the state’s roadways. This important legislation is now scheduled for a hearing on June 14, 2016, in the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee. The American Motorcyclist Association supports this legislation and encourages you to contact your state senator now and urge them to vote for AB 51. Fill out the form at the bottom of this page and click the red “Submit” button. Background: Lane splitting, also called lane filtering, is the practice of riding a motorcycle or scooter between lanes of stopped or slowly moving traffic. The fuel-saving and congestion-easing practice has been accepted in California for decades but does not have the power of law to protect it. In 2013, a complaint to the California Office of Administrative Law from a single individual forced the California Highway Patrol and other state government agencies to remove educational information from their websites that was intended to help motorcyclists understand and safely practice lane splitting on state roads and highways. The CHP posted these guidelines with the intention of helping motorcyclists and other drivers understand clearly identified safe practices and to discourage unsafe lane splitting. The guidelines represent common sense traffic safety tips and were simply intended to raise public awareness. Given the widespread popularity and general acceptance of lane splitting in California, the AMA believes this legislation will effectively formalize the practice. Riders, and the motoring public alike, benefit from lane splitting, which was documented by a University of California-Berkeley study released in 2015. The AMA welcomes the opportunity for state agencies like the California Highway Patrol and the Office of Traffic Safety to educate and inform all road users about the benefits of lane splitting. With the passage of AB 51, this will be possible. To contact your legislator, fill out the form at the bottom of this page and click the red “Submit” button. The complete AMA lane splitting position statement is available here. The deleted CHP guidelines can still be downloaded and reviewed here. The AMA is calling on all California riders to support this bill by entering your information in the fields below and clicking on the red “Submit” button. Support Lane Splitting Now more than ever, it is crucial that you and your riding friends become members of the AMA to help protect our riding freedoms. More members mean more clout against the opponents of motorcycling. That support will help fight for your rights – on the road, trail and racetrack and in the halls of government. If you are a motorcycle rider, join the AMA at americanmotorcyclist.com/membership/join.Please Follow the AMA on Twitter @AMA_Rights and like us on Facebook. |