We have heard a lot of nonsense on social networks about inter-queue traffic (CIF) for two or three-wheeled motorized vehicles, which would have been banned on January 1st. Or that the experiments would have been extended until July 2025. This time, the government has decided clearly and precisely.
Already, slipping between lines of cars did not need to be prohibited since it had never been authorized, considered until then by the Highway Code as overtaking on the right. However, this was not the case in certain departments, such as the North, where an “experiment” was carried out to try to determine whether or not the practice was dangerous. Elsewhere, we’re not going to lie to each other, no one has ever seen a biker waiting in a traffic jam and in fact, inter-lining was tolerated by the police if it was not practiced using handlebars. corner on the rear wheel.
“Defined and regulated” by the Highway Code
Today, all that is over and inter-lining has now been authorized since Thursday, throughout the country, Road Safety announced on Friday. This practice is “defined and regulated” by the Highway Code and it will be taught in motorcycle schools. But be careful, you don’t want to do anything or risk losing three points and 135 euros in your bank account.
The CIF is defined as follows: “Inter-queue traffic consists of traveling between the leftmost lanes in motorized two-wheelers or three-wheelers, when the lines of other vehicles are stationary or traveling at very low speed. . » This can only be practiced on “motorways and roads with at least two lanes separated by a central reservation and on which the maximum authorized speed is between 70 km/h and 130 km/h”. And in inter-files, the speed is “50 km/h maximum”, increasing to 30 km/h “if one of the lines is stopped”.
