Legalize lane filtering in Mississippi. Lane filtering on a motorcycle should be permitted in order to decrease traffic, increase rider safety, and protect the environment. In slow, or stop and go traffic, a motorcyclist is a sitting duck waiting to be rear-ended by someone not paying attention. A motorcycle being crushed between a stopped car and a distracted driver could easily be fatal. By allowing motorcyclists to filter between slow-moving or stopped vehicles, the danger is less serious. Being cut off by a driver changing lanes at relatively low speeds is far less likely to result in a death than the alternative of sitting between cars. Additionally, the allowance of lane filtering could help to decrease congested roadways, and our environmental impact. The ability to safely bypass traffic means a number of things for the public. First and foremost, expedited travel. Every car stopped in a jam is one less person or group of people getting where they are going, one more angry driver ready to road-rage at a small provocation. Every lane filtering motorcyclist is one less space on the road being taken up, and one more person getting where they are going. Cars and motorcycles stopped in traffic, are getting zero MPG, producing green house gasses, and polluting our beautiful Mississippi skies. As a rapidly growing city, efficient transport, carbon emissions, and public safety should be at the top of the list! The longer we wait, the closer we get to looking like Los Angeles. Almost everybody knows someone who rides a motorcycle, and almost everybody wants to protect our environment. Lane filtering will not only protect the environment, and benefit motorcyclists, but will also encourage more people to switch to bikes, decrease traffic, and promote healthier, safer road ways! If this sounds like a solution to a problem you and everyone else has experienced, please consider signing and promoting this petition, and protecting our citizens and forests.