Again, city council can’t rewrite the highway traffic act, so this is going nowhere unless the province decides to take up the cause.
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Lane filtering might become legal....
- Thread starter GRN_ZX7R
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OmegaBravo7
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Whatever was the end result? Legalized? Stayed illegal? Stayed illegal but cops turn blind eye? 
Still illegal - try your luck with cops turning a blind eye. All depends on time and place.
Trials
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Health care is free for you maybe.
My entire family has paid to support the health care system for more then a life time.
Trials
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Ya, maybe you will get lucky and find a cop that is blind in one eye.
Living downtown for 15 years I would see it fairly often when traffic is backed up a fair bit. Usually it was riders going very slowly to move to the front of the line at a red light. They would also use the curb or bike lanes to do it, which I can somewhat understand as long as cyclists get the right of way. Most of the times the cops seem ok with it, but I'm pretty sure I've read on here that a couple members have been charged with HTA172 for doing it.
After I moved out to the burbs I would see it on the 401 and that gets pretty dangerous. Although, now it's not filtering anymore, but lane splitting and most cars are not expecting it and are doing all kinds of stupid things themselves. I've also seen quite a few lane splitting occurrences lead to hard braking by large trucks which I also think is a big no no.
Props to RTI for trying to get this to move forward.
After I moved out to the burbs I would see it on the 401 and that gets pretty dangerous. Although, now it's not filtering anymore, but lane splitting and most cars are not expecting it and are doing all kinds of stupid things themselves. I've also seen quite a few lane splitting occurrences lead to hard braking by large trucks which I also think is a big no no.
Props to RTI for trying to get this to move forward.
What law, section in the HTA, etc... prohibits lane filtering?
Off the top of my head - Improper use of lane?
Again? We go over this like twice a season lol
And still.. no one can answer the question.
didnt we? it was either in this thread or another one.
IIRC offhand 'filtering or lane splitting is not even defined in the HTA'. Police charge you with stunting, careless, improper lane change and so on. Most of which would likely stick in court.
personally i thought i recalled seeing something in the HTA about 2 vehicles not occupying the same space in one lane but i was never able to find it again, maybe wishful thinking.
plenty, a few were stunt and 1 careless or unsafe operation (i don't recall now); all found guilty.
Trials
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Google says:
George Papazov 2008 charged with stunt driving on DVP, charges didn't stand up in court,
was found guilty of making an illegal lane change and fined $600
No.. we didn't.
If so... I'm gonna bet that all were pled out.. and none were actually fought in court.
Here's the case from one of those blocking/stunting incidents that went viral.
2019 ONCJ 53 (CanLII) | R. v. Allaudin | CanLII
Access all information related to judgment R. v. Allaudin, 2019 ONCJ 53 (CanLII) on CanLII.
www.canlii.org
Read the ruling.
yes plead guilty, cop says he saw you do it. done.
do you believe that telling the JP you were ripping it between stopped traffic and not stunting your motorcycle will result in a thrown case?
by the way, dashcam.
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