> Where I live, this is called "filtering" I had no idea it had a name. > and it's encouraged by both cycling organisations and motoring organisations. This

> Where I live, this is called "filtering" I had no idea it had a name. > and it's encouraged by both cycling organisations and motoring organisations. This shouldn't really come as a surprise. It's much safer for the cyclist to get ahead of traffic. It's a very nervy situation to have traffic slowly start moving again and you being on your bike squeezes near this accelerating train of cars. Even worse is to be between 2 cars. If the one in front of you suddenly breaks and you can't break on time, you hit them. If you do break on time, you run the risk of getting rammed by the car behind you and squashed into the car in front of you.