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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><FONT face=Tahoma>LIFE IN THE FAST LANE</FONT></SPAN></B>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal align=center><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>A collection of lane-related information</FONT></FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>by John Del Santo</FONT></FONT>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><FONT face=Tahoma>GENERAL</FONT></SPAN></U></B>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>If our bike is equipped with working electric directional signals the law requires that we use them when changing lanes. (CVC 22110).<SPAN> </SPAN>The State handbook also suggests that during times of heavy traffic, or poor visibility, that we <I><U>also</U></I><U> <SPAN> </SPAN></U>use hand signals so that cars are better able to see what our intentions are. </FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">SIGNAL LANE CHANGES<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">Before each lane change….Check your mirrors……Signal your intentions……Check your blind spot…..Make your move. </SPAN></FONT>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>The CA Drivers Handbook suggests that at freeway speeds we signal for at least five seconds<SPAN> </SPAN>before a lane change. </FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>Traffic lanes are often referred to by number. The left, or “fast” lane is called the “Number 1 Lane”.<SPAN> </SPAN>The lane to the right of the “number 1 lane” is called “The Number 2 Lane”<SPAN> </SPAN>,then the “Number 3 Lane” etc. <SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>If you are pulling a little camping trailer behind your motorcycle or car you now come under the same 3-axle category as a tractor trailer.<SPAN> </SPAN>You are restricted to the two right lanes of the freeway,<SPAN> </SPAN>restricted to 55 MPH,<SPAN> </SPAN>and not allowed to use the HOV lane.<SPAN> </SPAN>(P-35 CA Drivers Handbook)</FONT></SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT size=3><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">FOLLOWING DISTANCE<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">California Vehicle Code 21704 (a)<SPAN> </SPAN>States that </SPAN></FONT><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; COLOR: #505050; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt">) </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt">“ </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>The driver of any motor vehicle that is operated outside of a business or residence district, shall keep the vehicle he is driving <I>at a distance of not less</I> <I>than 300 feet to the rear of any other motor vehicle</I>”.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; COLOR: #505050; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"> <SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">That’s a space that would fit about five tractor-trailers</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">,
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">or is almost a football field long. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Miles per Hour...Times 1 </FONT></SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">1/2</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"> …</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Equals<SPAN> </SPAN>Feet-Per-Second traveled. At 65 MPH<SPAN> </SPAN>a vehicle is traveling <SPAN> </SPAN>about 100 feet<SPAN> </SPAN><I>Every Second.</I></FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">Many motorcyclists prefer traveling on the freeway in the Number 1 lane (far left).<SPAN> </SPAN>This leaves the rider able to only worry about bad moves from the vehicle to the right,<SPAN> </SPAN>and the vehicle behind.<SPAN> </SPAN>Riding in the number 1 lane also leaves the shoulder on the left as an escape route to avoid dangerous moves from other drivers. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3><SPAN> </SPAN>Unlike many other states,<SPAN> </SPAN>If you are traveling in the left lane….the number 1 lane…and you are maintaining the the posted speed limit….There is no legal reason for you to move out of that lane unless an emergency vehicle comes up behind you showing lights and/or siren.<B></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>The California Motorcycle Handbook (p-13)<SPAN> </SPAN>tells us “<I>There is no “best lane position” for riders in which to be seen and to maintain a space cushion around the motorcycle.<SPAN> </SPAN>Position yourself in the lane that allows the most visibility and space around you”.</I></FONT></SPAN>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>Generally speaking, I have been told by highway police that their attention is most drawn to vehicles that are jumping around from lane to lane, not to those that stay mostly in one lane.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>the drivers handbook suggests that at freeway speeds we signal for at least five seconds<SPAN> </SPAN>before a lane change. </FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><FONT face=Tahoma>GROUP RIDING</FONT></SPAN></U></B>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>“</FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">If you ride with others, do it in a way that promotes safety and doesn’t interfere with the flow of traffic” If the group is more than four or five riders, divide it into two or more smaller groups.<SPAN> </SPAN>Use a staggered formation and keep a <SPAN> </SPAN>2-second following distance from the rider directly in front of you. (P-32<SPAN> </SPAN>CA DMV motorcycle handbook). </SPAN></FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>When we are riding in a group on the freeway with five or ten other vehicles, WE ARE NOT AN EXCLUSIVE GROUP……..to the law and to the rest of the world, we are just ……five or ten individual vehicles.<SPAN> </SPAN>If other vehicles want to, or need to, make a lane change into our lane,<SPAN> </SPAN>they have every right to do so,<SPAN> </SPAN>and we have no right to try to stop them from doing so. Even convoys of army trucks or funeral processions lose their right to exclusivity when they are on a freeway. </FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 16pt">HOV<SPAN> </SPAN>LANES</SPAN></U></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><SPAN> </SPAN>(</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 16pt"> )(Carpool lane)</SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>No vehicle may cross double yellow lines into or out of an HOV LANE .</FONT></SPAN>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3><SPAN> </SPAN>In some areas, such as near Los Angeles ,<SPAN> </SPAN>the double-yellow lines are about 18 inches apart.<SPAN> </SPAN>These are <I>still </I><SPAN> </SPAN>double-yellow lines which no one may cross into or out of an HOV lane……..Contrary to some popular belief,<SPAN> </SPAN>these are NOT teeny little HOV lanes for motorcycles. </FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3><SPAN> </SPAN>ONE OR TWO PERSONS ON A MOTORCYCLE OR TRIKE (3-wheeled motorcycle)<SPAN> </SPAN>ARE ALLOWED TO USE AN HOV LANE, unless otherwise posted. (P-34<SPAN> </SPAN>CA Drivers Handbook).</FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>No vehicle pulling a trailer may use an HOV Lane . </FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">EMERGENCY VEHICLE STOPPED ON FREEWAY</SPAN></B>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">CVC-21809</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>. (a) A person driving a vehicle <U>on a freeway</U> approaching a <U>stationary</U> authorized emergency vehicle <U>that is displaying emergency</U> <U>lights</U>, <U>a stationary</U> tow truck that is <U>displaying flashing amber warning</U> <U>lights</U>, or a <U>stationary </U>marked Department of Transportation vehicle that is <U>displaying flashing amber warning lights</U>, </FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">shall approach with due caution and, before passing in a lane immediately adjacent to the authorized emergency vehicle, tow truck, or Department of Transportation vehicle, absent other direction by a peace officer, proceed to do one of the following: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"></SPAN></FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">(1<U>) Make a lane change into an available lane not immediately adjacent</U> to the</SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">authorized emergency vehicle, tow truck, or Department of Transportation vehicle, with due regard for safety and traffic conditions, if practicable and not prohibited by law. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"></SPAN></FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3><SPAN> </SPAN><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">(2) If the maneuver described in paragraph (1) would be unsafe or impracticable, <U>slow to a reasonable and prudent speed</U> that is safe for existing weather, road, and vehicular or pedestrian traffic conditions.</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></SPAN>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">CENTER LEFT-TURN LANES<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">A set of yellow solid lines with dotted yellow lines just inside them.<SPAN> </SPAN>These are to be use to start or complete left turns or to start u-turns.<SPAN> </SPAN>We may not stay in them for more than 200 feet (three tractor trailer lengths).<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">DOUBLE-DOUBLE YELLOWS<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">SETS OF double-double yellow lines are considered a barrier or island.<SPAN> </SPAN>We may never cross those even to get into or out of our own driveway Or to make a u-turn.</SPAN></FONT>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">NARROW STREETS<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">When riding in parts of town with small, narrow streets…..where there is not a centerline painted in the street,<SPAN> </SPAN>A CA Driver Handbook suggests that we ride out near the middle<SPAN> </SPAN>of the street, when no traffic is approaching us from the opposite direction.<SPAN> </SPAN>This reduces the chances of someone in a parked car making a move that would surprise or endanger you</SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma>.<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">Naturally, near an intersection we would be back towards the right side of the roadway. </SPAN></FONT>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">TURNOUT AREAS AND LANES<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'">Special “turnout” areas are sometimes marked on two-lane roads.<SPAN> </SPAN>Drive into these areas to allow traffic behind you to pass.<SPAN> </SPAN>If you are driving slowly, you are required to pull in if there are five or more vehicles behind you that want to go faster.<SPAN> </SPAN>(p-35<SPAN> </SPAN>CA Drivers Manual).</SPAN></FONT>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3><SPAN> </SPAN>SOMETIMES THESE TURNOUT AREAS ARE UNLIT AND UNPAVED, AND ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT, MOTORCYCLISTS WOULD HAVE TO MAKE SERIOUS CHOICES TO USE THEM OR NOT. <SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN>
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<H3 style="TEXT-INDENT: 0in; MARGIN: 0.1in 0in"><SPAN>PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ZONE<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=4>A "safety zone" is the area or space lawfully set apart within a roadway for the <U>exclusive</U> use of pedestrians and which is protected, or which is marked or indicated by vertical signs, raised markers or raised buttons, in order to make such area or space plainly visible at all times while the same is set apart as a safety zone. CA Vehicle Code 540.</FONT></SPAN></H3>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; COLOR: #505050; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt"> </SPAN><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>CROSSING BICYCLE LANES</FONT></SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 16pt"> </SPAN></STRONG><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><SPAN> </SPAN>As long as there are no bicycles using the bicycle lane anywhere near enough you to be a hazard,<SPAN> </SPAN>you may cross a bicycle lane to turn into or out of a driveway.<SPAN> </SPAN>If there is a bicycle lane, and no bicycles are using it, and you plan on turning right at the next corner, you should check your mirror, signal,<SPAN> </SPAN>check your blind spot,<SPAN> </SPAN>and move into the bicycle lane<SPAN> </SPAN>NO MORE THAN 200 feet from the corner (three tractor-trailer lengths)<SPAN> </SPAN>to approach your
right turn.<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>You may park in a bicycle lane, as long as there is no sign that proclaims “ Bike Lane<SPAN> </SPAN>No Parking”.</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; COLOR: #505050; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0.1in 0in"><FONT size=5><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Motorists Passing Bicyclists<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=4>Be patient when passing a bicyclist. Slow down and pass only when it is safe. Do not squeeze the bicyclist off the road. If road conditions and space permit, <U>allow clearance of at least three feet</U> when passing a bicyclist.</FONT></SPAN></H4>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv30127847MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3>Would you like to check out any vehicle laws or rules ? <SPAN> </SPAN>go to<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/vc/vc.htm" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN><FONT size=3>http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/vc/vc.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN><FONT size=3> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Ca Vehicle Code</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><SPAN> </SPAN>OR<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/driver_handbook_toc.htm" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN><FONT
size=3>http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/driver_handbook_toc.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN><FONT size=3> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">CA Driver Handbook.</SPAN></STRONG>
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<DIV><FONT color=#00007f face="tahoma, new york, times, serif"></FONT> <FONT size=1 face=Tahoma><STRONG>John Del Santo</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=1> ( 619 ) 223 - 0421</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><STRONG><EM> </EM></STRONG><FONT color=#0080ff size=1>At Intersections, and </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0080ff size=1> In Your Blind Spots,</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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