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California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1193

Introduced by Assembly Member Ting

February 22, 2013

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

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1193, as amended, Ting. Bikeways.

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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.

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This bill would additionally provide for a classification of Class IV bikeways, as specified.

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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.

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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.

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This bill would begin delete prohibit end delete begin insert require end insert the department begin delete from denying funding to a project because it is excepted pursuant to these procedures end delete begin insert , in cooperation with local agencies, to establish minimum safety design criteria for Class IV bikeways end insert .

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert Section 890.4 of the end insert begin insert Streets and Highways Code end insert begin insert ,
as amended by Section 17 of Chapter 523 of the Statutes of 2013,
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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.

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(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.

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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. begin delete The
department shall not deny funding to a project because it is
excepted pursuant to this subdivision. end delete

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(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.

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