BILL NUMBER: AB 1193	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 6, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 25, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ting

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend  Section   Sections 890.4 and
 891 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to bikeways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1193, as amended, Ting. Bikeways. 
   Existing law defines "bikeway" for certain purposes to mean all
facilities that provide primarily for bicycle travel. Existing law
categorizes bikeways into 3 classes of facilities.  
   This bill would additionally provide for a classification of Class
IV bikeways, as specified. 
   Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, in
cooperation with county and city governments, to establish minimum
safety design criteria for the planning and construction of bikeways,
and requires the department to establish uniform specifications and
symbols regarding bicycle travel and bicycle traffic related matters.
Existing law requires all city, county, regional, and other local
agencies responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or
roadways where bicycle travel is permitted to utilize all minimum
safety design criteria and uniform specifications and symbols for
signs, markers, and traffic control devices established pursuant to
that law. 
   Existing law also requires the department, by June 30, 2013, to
establish procedures to permit exceptions to the above requirements
for purposes of research, experimentation, testing, evaluation, or
verification. 
   This bill would  prohibit   require  the
department  from denying funding to a project because it is
excepted pursuant to these procedures   , in cooperation
with local agencies, to establish minimum safety design criteria for
Class IV bikeways  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION   1.    Section 890.4 of the 
 Streets and Highways Code  , as amended by Section
  17 of Chapter 523 of the Statutes of 2013, is amended to
read: 
   890.4.  As used in this article, "bikeway" means all facilities
that provide primarily for bicycle travel. For purposes of this
article, bikeways shall be categorized as follows:
   (a) Class I bikeways, also known as "bike paths" or "shared-use
paths," which provide a completely separated right-of-way designated
for the exclusive use of bicycles and pedestrians with crossflows by
motorists minimized.
   (b) Class II bikeways, also known as "bike lanes," which provide a
restricted right-of-way designated for the exclusive or
semiexclusive use of bicycles with through travel by motor vehicles
or pedestrians prohibited, but with vehicle parking and crossflows by
pedestrians and motorists permitted.
   (c) Class III bikeways, also known as onstreet or offstreet "bike
routes," which provide a right-of-way designated by signs or
permanent markings and shared with pedestrians and motorists. 
   (d) Class IV bikeways, also known as "cycletracks" or "protected
bike lanes," which provide a right-of-way designated exclusively for
bicycle travel within a roadway and which are protected from other
vehicle traffic with devices, including, but not limited to, grade
separation, flexible posts, inflexible physical barriers, or parked
cars. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Section 891 of
the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read:
   891.  (a) All city, county, regional, and other local agencies
responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or roadways
where bicycle travel is permitted shall utilize all minimum safety
design criteria and uniform specifications and symbols for signs,
markers, and traffic control devices established pursuant to Sections
890.6 and 890.8, except as provided in subdivision (b).
   (b) The department shall establish procedures to permit exceptions
to the requirements of subdivision (a) for purposes of research,
experimentation, testing, evaluation, or verification.  The
department shall not deny funding to a project because it is excepted
pursuant to this subdivision.  
   (c) The department, in cooperation with local agencies, shall, on
or before June 30, 2015, establish minimum safety design criteria for
Class IV bikeways, as designated in Section 890.4.