Experienced since 2016, inter-line traffic will finally be prohibited for two-wheelers from February 1.

Guest of Europe 1, Yves Carra, spokesperson for the Automobile Club Association, hopes that this decision will not give rise to a wave of verbalizations.

It calls for the establishment of a new experiment.

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This decision will change a lot of things for the circulation of motorized two-wheelers.

From Monday, they will now be prohibited from going back up between two lines of cars in traffic jams.

This very established practice, especially in large urban areas, was an experiment launched in 2016 in eleven departments.

It would not be conclusive, according to the Road Safety Delegation which indicates, based on a report, that "motorized two-wheeler accidents have increased by 12% on roads where the experience of inter-road traffic. -files (CIF) has occurred. " 

For Yves Carra, the spokesperson for the Automobile Club Association, this experiment legalized behavior that had long since become part of the habits of motorists.

"In fact, for decades, two-wheelers have circulated between two lines of cars, whether on the motorway or on the ring road in Ile-de-France. It is prohibited in the Highway Code , but it was very widely tolerated by the police and the gendarmerie, "he told the microphone of Europe Matin.

"So we hope that from February 1, there will be no punch operation to show that they are doing whatever it takes to have it banned." 

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Towards a new experiment

He believes that inter-line traffic remains particularly suited to large cities, especially in Paris where car traffic is dense and where public transport has been largely deserted because of the coronavirus epidemic.

"There is an evolution and a return of individual travel, whether in motorized two-wheelers or by car", argues Yves Carra.

"When you're on two-wheelers, it's obviously so you never have to stop. Not necessarily to go very fast but so as not to waste hours in traffic jams and to be able to park easily."

In a press release, Marie Gautier-Melleray, the interministerial delegate for road safety, however requests the establishment of "a new experiment" but "with adapted rules" with a view to a possible integration of the practice into the Code of the road.

"Let us hope that this experiment is carried out quickly and that conclusions can be drawn from it which authorize this practice with all the rules of road safety", notes Yves Carrera.

What more can we do?

"Pedagogy, education, training. It will be necessary, during the driving license, to strongly accentuate this part", he concludes.