Belgium authorizes inter-vehicle motorbike traffic

Belgium may no longer have a government, it does not lack good ideas: as we announced this summer (read MNC of June 21, 2011), the royal decree of June 11, 2011 relating to "security and mobility motorcyclists "since September 1 authorizes motorcyclists to circulate between lines of cars.

Belgium may no longer have a government, it does not lack good ideas: as we announced this summer (read), the royal decree of 11 June 2011 relating to "the safety and mobility of motorcyclists" has since authorized on September 1, motorcyclists to circulate between the lines of cars.

Line up

Regulating this practice naturally aims to avoid excess: the speed difference between the motorcycle and "immobilized vehicles or those moving slowly" must not exceed 20 km / h, and the rider must not exceed 50 km / h during a queue rise.

In addition, this interfile circulation is only authorized between the two bands located on the left: so many principles of common sense very close to those claimed in vain by the French Federation of Angry Motards (FFMC) for many years ( read in particular …

Sidewalk parking authorized and mandatory equipment

This decree also provides that motorcycles can park on sidewalks and "in built-up areas, on projecting shoulders, in such a way that they do not hinder or make dangerous the movement of other users and on condition that a strip is left free. walkable at least 1.50 meters wide ", specifies Article 4.

Finally, in addition to the helmet, Belgian bikers and their passengers will now have to wear "gloves, a long-sleeved jacket and pants or a combination as well as boots or booties that protect the ankles", specifies this text signed by the first Belgian Minister and State Secretary for Mobility.

Should France also separate from its government so that simple and common sense measures are finally adopted? Enough to fuel the debates during the events this weekend (read and our)…

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