Passing traffic: What's the protocol?

[grotbag]

Where abouts are you, it doesn't say under your userid?


I have to drive along a dual carrageway to work, about a 6 mile stretch with about 4 set's of pedestrian crossings along it, this morning there was a tailback and we were moving about 2 - 3 miles PH, I watched a biker who was doing just what your asking about.

He moved in the middle of the two lanes of traffic and was only going slightly faster than the cars but he was out and away at the end of the bottleneck as he was gone out of my vision

[nice111]

quote Originally Posted by Carl Panther
I think the best and safest method is to filter right to the front.



no disrespect carl but your advise as listed above is completely wrong advice, and is illegal to filter your way to the front of the que although you can filter your way to the rear of the vehicle that is at the front of the que (think about it and it does make safe sence)

if you do choose to filter (which is peferctley legal to do so) you can only perform the manouver if the way is clear for you to do so, meaning you must take contro of your own behaviour and if choosing to take action that would be careless to to then you would be breaking the law, if its clear and safe then its fine as long as you pull up behind the first vehicle in the que

hope this helps clear a few points

[grotbag]

Originally Posted by nice111

quote Originally Posted by Carl Panther
I think the best and safest method is to filter right to the front.



no disrespect carl but your advise as listed above is completely wrong advice, and is illegal to filter your way to the front of the que although you can filter your way to the rear of the vehicle that is at the front of the que (think about it and it does make safe sence)

if you do choose to filter (which is peferctley legal to do so) you can only perform the manouver if the way is clear for you to do so, meaning you must take contro of your own behaviour and if choosing to take action that would be careless to to then you would be breaking the law, if its clear and safe then its fine as long as you pull up behind the first vehicle in the que

hope this helps clear a few points

no disrespects nice, but if your talking with authority you need to back this up with where you got this info from, such as a web link, otherwise peeps could think your just being assertive with your own 'opinions', as I said - no disrespects but opinions are one thing but facts are usually documented somewhere

[nice111]

its not my opinion, its in the road traffic act, i think there maybe something in highway code too

[grotbag]

Road Traffic Act 1991
Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40)


The Highway Code - Motorcyclists 83 -88
83-88: Rules for motorcyclists : Directgov - Travel and transport

88

Additionally, when filtering in slow-moving traffic, take care and keep your speed low


I also found this article :-
Urban motorcycling - Safe Filtering and Minimising risk in heavy traffic

In addition at traffic lights, passing the lead vehicle introduces the risk of the lights changing to green just as we level with the car, where as joining one or two cars back, represents a significantly lower risk. If we do get to the front of the queue while the lights are still red, we will need to move off promptly to avoid being shunted from behind, once the lights have changed.