A California bill to legalize and regulate the controversial motorcycle practice of lane-splitting has been withdrawn.
Assembly member Bill Quirk (D, Hayward) pulled AB51 from active consideration last week, after it had passed the State Assembly but before it had been submitted for a vote by the Senate.
A Quirk spokesman said in an email, "Lane splitting is a very complex issue and the author feels he needs more time to work out the details so that it's more likely to be signed."
The measure, if passed into law, would have allowed motorcycles to travel between cars at speeds up to 15 mph faster than the flow of traffic, up to a speed of 50 mph.