Road safety – The CNSR should authorize inter-lane traffic … in certain cases –

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The CNSR should authorize inter-lane traffic … in certain cases

Road safety - The CNSR should authorize inter-lane traffic ... in certain cases -

The National Road Safety Council (CNSR) is preparing to examine the report by Prefect Regis Guyot on inter-lane traffic (not to be confused with back-up lanes) and should authorize it on motorway-type lanes.. Explanations.

The National Road Safety Council (CNSR) is preparing to examine the report by Prefect Regis Guyot () on the movement of motorized two-wheelers between lines in traffic jams, submitted to the Minister of the Interior at the end of last year (read).

Line-ups or inter-line traffic ?

If they seem a priori to mean the same thing and are often confused in everyday language, the expressions "rise of lines" and "inter-line circulation" actually cover two different notions..

"Raising the line (s) can be described as overtaking a line of vehicles from the left or the right, whether or not crossing a discontinuous longitudinal line", explains Regis Guyot, recalling that"the slalom performed between vehicles by some users of motorized two-wheelers, especially in urban areas, is a particularly dangerous form".

On the other hand, "inter-line traffic can be described as the simultaneous overtaking – by the left and by the right – of two lines of vehicles circulating in two traffic lanes of a one-way carriageway: it is an ascent between two lines of vehicles".

There are therefore several ways to "move up the queues", but only two correspond to the notion of "inter-queue circulation:

  1. "Go back up between two lines of vehicles that are either stationary or moving at walking pace or at a moderate pace, in a street, avenue or boulevard in a city center, or on a road in a peri-urban area".

  2. "Go back up between two lines of vehicles that are either stationary or moving at walking pace, at a moderate pace, or even more steadily, on penetrating or peripheral one-way urban expressways, or two-way traffic with or without separate roads".

This is an already old claim of the French Federation of Angry Motorcyclists (FFMC), which makes sense for anyone who has ever been around town on the handlebars of a motorcycle or scooter. So much so that a 2-Roues Lab ‘study by the Mutuelle des Motards recently showed that "inter-line traffic and moving up the lines are inseparable from the practice of 2-wheelers in an urban environment"(read .

Even the little revolutionary Delegation for Road Safety and Traffic (DSCR) has been actively working on the subject for several years (read in particular and our).

Under the aegis of the prefect, the FFMC, representatives of motorcycle taxis, insurers, researchers from the French Institute of Sciences and Technologies of Transport, Planning and Networks (IFSTTAR, formerly INRETS), trainers , the police and ministerial officials therefore ended up finding a consensus to regulate this practice..

Site readers – who, as everyone knows, are a little more fortunate than the others – already knew that this circulation between the lines would be limited "one-way expressways, between the left-most lanes"and that it is also planned to"limit the speed of motorized two-wheelers in interfiles in the event of heavily slowed traffic"(read again).

"It’s’ time to teach it to all road users"

"This little accident-causing practice, commonly widespread in a complex mobility context, can no longer be a mere tolerance in our cities where the number of two-wheelers continues to grow.", rejoices the FFMC, recalling that it is"time to teach it to all road users so that it is practiced in a reasoned and reasonable way, not just anywhere, not anytime and not just anyhow".

For its part, the French Motorcycling Federation (FFM) recalls that it is also an activist "for many years for the recognition of this essential measure for the circulation of motorized two-wheelers"and"welcomes the fact that this report from the Ministry of the Interior finally recommends its implementation".

"This report confirms that inter-line traffic does not present any major risks in terms of claims (no fatalities related to inter-line traffic on the ring road in Paris since 2007)", retains in particular the FFM by noting that"initially, the proposal to regulate this type of travel would only concern highways or motorway lanes such as the Paris ring road".

The ball is now in the CNSR’s court, which will have to discuss the modalities of a possible implementation, in order to propose measures for the next Interministerial Road Safety Council (IRB).

To be followed naturally as a priority on Site: stay connected !

Eric MICHEL

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