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I’ve been riding for 16 years. I average about 4 days a week commuting in Houston traffic. I have lane-split a handful of times when the traffic was essentially stopped. It’s not really my first choice as I prefer to keep as much distance as possible between me and the rolling cages, but there’s been a few times that it made sense. Honestly I’m more paranoid riding in parking lots, and have by far had more close calls there. Residential streets are even more crazy. I have two friends that have been hit on their bikes on residential streets, both longtime extremely safe riders. It just seems to me that we as riders are already expected to on a consistent basis safely deal with traffic situations that are considerably more chaotic than a heavily congested freeway. Allowing lane-splitting in certain circumstances should be a no-brainer.