BILL NUMBER: AB 1193	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 18, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 23, 2014
	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
   (  Coauthor:   Assembly Member 
 Gatto   Coauthors:  Assembly Members
  Bloom,   Gatto,   Lowenthal,  
and Wieckowski  )

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Sections 890.4  , 890.6,  and 891 
of, to add Section 885.1 to, and to repeal Section 891.1  of
 ,  the Streets and Highways Code, relating to bikeways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1193, as amended, Ting. Bikeways. 
   Existing 
    (1)     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,  also known as cycle tracks or
separated bikeways,  as specified. 
   Existing 
    (2)     Existing  law requires the
Department of Transportation, in cooperation with county and city
governments, to establish  and update  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  of
those  minimum safety design criteria and uniform specifications
and symbols  for signs, markers, and traffic control devices
established pursuant to that law  .
   This bill would require the department, in cooperation with local
agencies, to establish minimum safety design criteria for 
Class IV bikeways.   each class of bikeways, with
consideration for the safety of vulnerable populations, as specified.
The bill would require all city, county, regional, and other local
agencies to utilize the uniform specifications and symbols for signs,
markers, and traffic control devices established by the department
and would authorize those agencies to utilize the minimum safety
design criteria.  
   (3) Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to
establish, by June 30, 2013, procedures for cities, counties, and
local agencies to be granted exceptions from the requirement to use
design criteria and uniform specifications for purposes of research,
experimentation, testing, evaluation, or verification. Existing law
requires the department, by November 1, 2014, to report to the
transportation policy committees of both houses of the Legislature
the steps that the department has taken to implement those
requirements, including, but not limited to, information regarding
requests received and granted by the department from July 1, 2013, to
June 30, 2014, inclusive, for those exceptions, and the reasons the
department rejected any requests for those exceptions.  
   This bill would repeal those requirements.
   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   .    The Legislature
finds and declares all of the following:  
   (a) It is the goal of the state to increase the number of trips
Californians take by bicycle and other forms of active transportation
in order to help meet the state's greenhouse gas emissions reduction
goals, improve Californians' health by helping more people be
active, and stimulate the economy.  
   (b) Protected bikeways are proven to attract many more people to
bicycling and to reduce collision rates compared to unimproved
streets or streets with typical bike lanes.  
   (c) Property and businesses adjacent to protected bikeways
experience increases in real estate values and sales compared to
unimproved streets.  
   (d) Bicycling accounts for 2,000,000 trips every day in
California, showing growth in all groups, in particular among people
of color.  
   (e) Safe street-level bikeways are proven to reduce bike riding on
the sidewalk, wrong-way riding, and other illegal or unsafe
bicycling practices.  
   (f) It is the objective of the state to encourage the planning,
design, and construction of protected bikeways in a manner that
improves safety for all users, including motorists, transit users,
pedestrians, and persons with disabilities, with special attention to
the needs of visually impaired persons. 
  SEC. 2.    Section 885.1 is added to the  
Streets and Highways Code   , to read:  
   885.1.  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Protected Bikeways Act of 2014. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 3.   Section 890.4 of
the Streets and Highways Code  ,  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"
  "cycle tracks   "  or 
"protected bike lanes,"   "separated  
bikeways,   "  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,   vehicular traffic.
Types of separation include, but are not limited to,  grade
separation, flexible posts, inflexible physical barriers, or 
parked cars   on-street parking  .
   SEC.   4.    Section 890.6 of the  
Streets and Highways Code   is amended to read: 
   890.6.  The department, in cooperation with county and city
governments, shall establish minimum safety design criteria for the
planning and construction of  bikeways   each
class   of bikeway identified in Section 890.4  and
roadways where bicycle travel is permitted. The criteria shall
include, but not be limited to, the design speed of the facility,
minimum widths and clearances, grade, radius of curvature, pavement
surface, actuation of automatic traffic control devices, drainage,
and general safety  ,   with consideration for the
safety of vulnerable populations, such as children, seniors, persons
with impaired vision, and persons of limited mobility  . The
criteria shall be updated biennially, or more often, as needed.
   SEC. 2.   SEC. 5.   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  may  utilize  all 
 the  minimum safety design criteria  established
pursuant to Section 890.6  and  shall utilize the 
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. 
    (c)     The department,
in cooperation with local agencies, shall establish minimum safety
design criteria for Class IV bikeways, as designated in Section
890.4.   Section 890.8. 
   SEC.   6.    Section 891.1 of the  
Streets and Highways Code   is repealed.  
   891.1.  (a) The department shall, by November 1, 2014, submit a
report to the transportation policy committees of both houses of the
Legislature that describes the steps the department has taken to
implement the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 891 related
to permitting exceptions to the requirements of subdivision (a) of
Section 891. The report shall include, but not be limited to, all of
the following:
   (1) The number of requests the department has received from
cities, counties, and local agencies from July 1, 2013, to June 30,
2014, inclusive.
   (2) The number of exceptions the department granted during that
year.
   (3) If any requests were rejected, the reasons why those requests
were not approved.
   (b)  This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2015, and,
as of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2016, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.