The safety message of “Start Seeing Motorcycles” will take on more meaning in Minnesota on Tuesday as lane splitting and filtering for motorcyclists become legal. Passed in the 2024 legislative ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

A new law that allows motorcyclists in Minnesota to share lanes with cars for the first time took effect July 1, though there are restrictions on when and where such a maneuver can be performed. The ...

Motorcycles are appealing for numerous reasons. Not only can they be exceptionally fuel-efficient compared to a car, but they can also be a really fun way to zip around town. Motorcycles' small sizes ...

Minnesota has become the second state to allow lane splitting by motorcyclists, but with rules substantially tighter than California’s. Fast chargers are expanding quickly, but American EV drivers ...

Right now, someone in some level of your state or local government is forming an opinion on motorcycle lane splitting. They're looking at the spate of laws being enacted state by state, legalizing the ...

On August 7, 2024, a new law came into effect in Colorado that allows motorcyclists to pass or overtake stopped cars in the same lane. Riding between cars or sharing lanes had been expressly illegal ...

Colorado’s lane-filtering law for motorcyclists has been in effect for more than a year, but it’s still too soon to know if it has helped prevent motorcycle crashes and injuries, as the law was ...

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