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 ...

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.

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 ...

A handful of laws passed last year have come into effect, and two from Utah prohibit lane-splitting and make popping a ...

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 ...

Motorcycle fatalities in Minnesota have been climbing. In 2022, a total of 1,035 motorcycle crashes occurred, killing 84 motorcyclists, which is the deadliest number ever recorded in the state. In ...

Three months into Minnesota’s new law allowing motorcyclists to move through traffic — under certain circumstances — and state agencies say more education is needed to get everyone on the road on the ...