The circulation of motorized two-wheelers between two lines, completely prohibited since the end of January, will be tested again for three years from Monday and extended to 21 departments, according to a decree published on Friday in

the Official Journal

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The Île-de-France, Bouches-du-Rhône, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, Isère, Loire-Atlantique, North, Rhône, Var will be affected by this new experiment. , the Alpes-Maritimes, the Drôme, the Vaucluse, the Pyrénées-Orientales and the metropolis of Lyon.

The goal, indicated by the Interministerial Delegate for Road Safety, Marie Gautier-Melleray, is "to try to find ways to make this practice safer for two-wheelers and all other road users" while the previous experiment, lasting five years, had yielded inconclusive results.

According to the report carried out by Cerema (Center for Studies and Expertise on Risks, the Environment, Mobility and Planning), the accident of motorized two-wheelers on the roads, where the measure was tested, had thus increased by 12% while it had fallen by 10% on other roads in the 11 departments concerned.

A different experiment, however

But Road Safety considered the statistical data too few and far between to be really conclusive, which pushed it to widen the perimeter.

"We have also noted a definite improvement in behavior and better social acceptability as the experiment progresses", underlines Marie Gautier-Melleray to justify the new phase of the experiment.

But whereas previously two-wheelers could travel between the two leftmost lanes at a maximum of 50 km / h regardless of the speed of the other vehicles, they will no longer be able to travel more than 30 km / h faster than those- ci (within a limit of 50 km / h maximum).

For example, if the traffic is completely stopped, their speed will be limited to 30 km / h (40 km / h if the speed is 10 km / h, etc.).

Society

The circulation of two-wheelers between the lines of cars prohibited from February 1

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