Utah motorcyclists may soon travel legally between same-direction lanes and cars — but only when other traffic is stopped and the cycle moves at 15 mph or less.
That would allow them to proceed to the front of traffic waiting at an intersection, and should reduce sometimes deadly rear-end collisions of stopped motorcycles.
The Utah House endorsed that practice — called “lane filtering” — by a 54-12 vote on Tuesday, and sent HB149 to the Senate for consideration.
Its sponsor, Rep. Walt Brooks, R-St. George, said that is not the same as “lane splitting,” often experienced in California where motorcycles travel between cars at high speeds.