# Is it legal to change lanes across a solid white line?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 30, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legal-to-change-lanes-across-a-solid-white-line/611222 "2012-01-30T20:27:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legal-to-change-lanes-across-a-solid-white-line/611222/41 "2012-02-02T19:15:15Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> To the best of my knowledge, and IANAL, no state or municipality provides jury trials for traffic tickets. Since you seem to have a gotcha up your sleeve, where do they do jury trials for ticketed infractions?

There are traffic court cases here in RI where you can request a jury trial, but I don’t know what the threshold for that is. I’ve certainly never heard of it for something along the lines of speeding or crossing a line. The only case I know of for sure is one where the testimony of a police officer was disputed, and I don’t recall the charge.

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