Road safety – The CNSR recommends experimenting with interfile traffic –

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The CNSR recommends experimenting with interfile circulation

Road safety - The CNSR recommends experimenting with interfile traffic -

Everything comes at the right time for those who know how to wait … While inter-file traffic has existed de facto since two-wheelers circulate in town, and road safety has been working on the subject for several years at the request of biker associations, the National Road Safety Council (CNSR) meeting this morning …

Everything comes at the right time for those who know how to wait … While inter-file traffic has existed de facto since two-wheelers have been circulating in the city, and road safety has been working on the subject for several years at the request of biker associations, the National Road Safety Council (CNSR) meeting this morning in Paris has finally recommended an "experimentation" of this practice !

After debate and vote, the CNSR indeed recommends to the Minister of the Interior to "launch an experiment on certain urban expressways, allowing motorized two-wheelers, when the traffic is congested, to circulate between the two lanes furthest to the left , subject to a speed limit of 50 km / h ".

Site readers – who, as everyone knows, have a little more luck than others – will have easily recognized the criteria defined by the Road Safety and Traffic Delegation (DSCR) in collaboration with the main players in the sector. (read).

According to the recommendation of the CNSR, this experiment should be carried out for two years on the ring road in Paris and on the expressways of Lyon, Marseille and Besançon..

The first reactions

"This recognition of a practice specific to motorized two-wheelers is a great step forward in taking into account a rapidly developing mode of travel", indicates the French Federation of Angry Motards (FFMC).

"It is a measure of common sense, since recognizing inter-file traffic means allowing it to be supervised for a more secure sharing of the road", considers for his part Pierre Chasseray, general delegate of the association 40 million motorists.

The Automobile Club des Avocats (ACDA) also welcomes the CNSR’s proposal to experiment with interfile traffic and hopes that this is "a first step towards the legal recognition of this practice, which is currently neither authorized nor prohibited! "

"While it is tolerated most of the time, it is sometimes verbalized by the police," notes ACDA. "However, for want of being defined in the highway code, the observation of the inter-file increase gives rise to the drafting of several reports to characterize the alleged fact: overtaking on the right (fine of 135 euros and withdrawal of 3 points), failure to respect the safety distances (fine of 135 euros and withdrawal of 3 points), overtaking without moving sufficiently to the left of the vehicle passed (fine of 135 euros + withdrawal of 3 points), change of lane without reason ( fine of 35 euros), and sometimes excessive speed (fine of 135 euros) ".

"What is the use of experimenting with what has been practiced every day for years?"

"The recognition of the interfile traffic would allow the teaching of this practice", continue the lawyers, stressing that it "would also allow the compensation by the insurer of the driver of two-wheelers involved in an accident while practicing the traffic interfiles ".

The ACDA regrets, however, that only an experimental phase has been decided: "what is the point of experimenting with what has been practiced every day for years? Likewise, the ACDA wonders about the relevance of limiting the experimental phase to highways, while interfile traffic makes sense in all situations of stopping lines of vehicles, or traffic at walking pace, whatever the lane. In a traffic jam, a biker should push his motorcycle by hand! Finally, taking note from the limit to 50 km / h when moving up queues, the ACDA finally raises the difficulty of flashing a two-wheeler moving up two queues of vehicles "…

"Interesting advances"

Finally for the French Motorcycling Federation (FFM), it is "interesting advances for motorcycles". The federal body also notes "with relief that the CNSR has not validated the experts’ recommendation to reduce the speed from 90 to 80 km / h on departmental roads".

This recommendation made to the Minister of the Interior must now be examined by the Interministerial Committee for Road Safety (IRB), whose date of the next meeting has not yet been set. To be continued on MNC: stay connected !

Victims’ Day, data collection and breathalyzer immobilizer

The CNSR of November 29, 2013 also made three other recommendations:

Establish a national day for victims of the road on February 22, to make it "a day of commemoration of the people and families whose fate, on a road, suddenly turned into the tragedy. This day will also launch work to advance the care of victims and their families ".

(Note that February 22 was already since 1990 the "European Day of Victims" (not only of the road) and since 1926 (!) The "World Scout Day" (World Thinking Day), in tribute to the date of birth of the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell, February 22, 1857)…

Organize the recovery of data, already present in vehicle control systems, in order to reconstruct the origins of accidents. "This solution, at no additional cost, based on recording without sound or image of the movement of the vehicle, nevertheless requires that the data format be standardized at European level for future vehicles".

And finally to develop the use of the alcohol ignition interlock device for drivers presenting a problem with alcohol, accompanied by monitoring and care.

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