Official green light for interline motorcycle circulation. The Government published on Friday a decree aimed at generalizing the circulation of motorized two- and three-wheeled vehicles between the left lanes on the main roads and highways, a practice experimented for several years and now regulated by the highway code.
Traffic between lanes (CIF), which has been the subject of experiments in 21 departments of large urban areas, is now authorized on all roads and highways with at least two lanes separated by a median and in which the maximum authorized speed is between 70 and 130 km/h (as well as on the Paris ring road, where the limit has been reduced to 50 km/h), according to the provisions of the decree published in the Official Gazette, which comes into force this Saturday, January 11.
“It is about regulating the practice and moving from de facto inter-line circulation to de jure inter-line circulation, but under certain conditions,” the inter-ministerial delegate for road safety, Florence Guillaume, stressed to AFP. “This is not a gift or an inconsiderate facility offered to motorcyclists, but rather a matter of traffic flow,” he insisted, recalling that the two phases of experimentation “demonstrated that there is no excess mortality linked to this practice.”
Specific crime
Now defined by the highway code, this inter-line circulation applies to two- and three-wheel motorized vehicles less than one meter wide, when traffic is “dense” and only between the leftmost two rows of vehicles. of the road. The maximum authorized speed is 50 km/h when traveling between lines, a limit that is reduced to 30 km/h if “one of the lines is stopped.”
The new codification also provides for the creation of a specific violation in the event of non-compliance with one of these conditions, punishable by a fourth class fine and the withdrawal of three points from the driving license. The objective, explains Road Safety in a press release, is to “define a peaceful and safe framework” for traffic between queues.
Source: BFM TV
