VA bicycling bills under consideration now

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@arlcxrider 208134 wrote:

The Senate passed a substitute bill yesterday, approving riding two abreast and “change lanes to pass.”

Unfortunately the Idaho stop was stripped out, and replaced with a lame provision to convene a “study group.”

I’ll take small progress over no progress.

[arlcxrider]

The bill assigns the “safety stop,” aka Idaho stop, working group to the State Police. Having watched the State Police (and its avid supporters in the GA) oppose reform in motorcycle laws over the years, they are historically very resistant to major changes in traffic laws. They opposed allowing motorcycles riding two abreast for years, but that bill finally made it through the legislature in 2012. Virginia became the 49th state to legalize the practice. Motorcyclists were being charged with reckless driving for pulling up alongside one another at traffic lights.

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