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The CMSP has $250k. How do you want to spend it on moto safety??

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I was at the CMSP advisory committee meeting today (along with a number of Barfers:thumbup) and I was given permission to ask barf on how should we spend up to 250k on safety.

I had already turned in a proposal: Create an online educational tool for lanesplitting. The CHP has a second which is to hand out hi vis vests at their outings. Not much else is on the table right now.

This is part of the additional 1M that is going to be spent out of the CMSP fund that has grown to 12M. So this should be ongoing for about 10 years assuming moto registrations stay above the 800k amount and the CMSP continues to training about 65k people a year.

More on that and the rest of the meeting in another thread.

So of the $1M - 800k is going to media. TV/ radio PSA's and social media stuff. Good call there.

This 250k will remain open to other good ideas to be filtered through the Advisory committee.

So please consider me your resource to broadcast your ideas to the CHP.
Do be aware I will have to quantify costs so if way out in left field I may have trouble doing that.

What ya got? :Port
 
How about we take a page from Data Dan's book and use the $250,000 to fund research that digs into the data we already have about motorcycle accidents related to lane splitting to come up with fact-based tips for both riders and drivers? Hopefully it would stop a lot of the drivers bemoaning over AB51 and wise up some riders as to the real risks of riding among traffic.
 
jdhu said:
Track days for all BARFers?
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Where do I vote ? :laughing

Smash Allen said:
How about we take a page from Data Dan's book and use the $250,000 to fund research that digs into the data we already have about motorcycle accidents related to lane splitting to come up with fact-based tips for both riders and drivers?
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Realistically though, this is a very good idea IHMO.
 
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bikeama said:
+1

Some drivers just don't look.
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+1

Of all the shit that's out there that can kill us, this is the one that seems to occur with more frequency than any of them.
 
Buy a few congressmen or women. works for corporations...









My bad, you were being serious. fund a militia made up of riders to self regulate against idiot fuckwads like bikelyfe636 moron?
 
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Re-write the driver's DMV handbook & tests to emphasize motorcycles.
 
Organize free intermediate training for motorcyclists that emphasizes road safety and evasive maneuvers.
 
I agree about left turners. I don't have a solution or an answer on how to correct the problem. Maybe some kind of campaign to bash it in to cagers heads to look for motorcycles before crossing into the opposite flow of traffic. (yeah, it still wouldn't make a difference)
 
Headlight modulators & auxiliary Clearwaters for everyone! :thumbup
 
Lobby automakers to make those blind spot alerts on their mirrors more prominent and standard on all models.
 
Pay someone to make wheelies a ticketable offense of their own, and not fall under reckless driving. That way you can't get arrested/your motorcycle impounded.
 
I have had it suggested that making high quality training videos might be a good use for some of it. I would suggest they be tailored more so to non-riders than riders with info on what's legal, what to watch for etc. Perhaps as part of new driver's training or something like that.
 
250k is not much in today's standards but I would propose something similar to Budman's approach on education but instead of a tool, put a required question in the DMV written test that has to do with lane splitting so at least new drivers know that motorcyclists in CA are able to split legally. Get some kind of adoption early with very little effort (write in a simple question and revise the test).
 
I agree. 250k is not much. Specially in Government money.
 
RightCoastBias said:
Pay someone to make wheelies a ticketable offense of their own, and not fall under reckless driving. That way you can't get arrested/your motorcycle impounded.
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For your information, it is already a different violation, if you write the citation "correctly":
23109.
(c) A person shall not engage in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway, and a person shall not aid or abet in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on any highway.
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People pushing to spend this money on "research" are missing a key point: Government employees are ALREADY PAID to research this information by the taxpayers. Get them to do their job for a change, so I get my money's worth. Thanks.

How about you pay ME to do a series of safety videos for motorcycles designed for the YouTube short attention span audience.. It won't be a "Red Asphalt" campaign, but more of a "Hey, be cool and live past Tuesday" kind of thing. :teeth
 
FWIW, lofting the front or rear wheel is considered a loss of traction, also ticketable.
 
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