File #: ORD 17-002    Version: 1 Name: Ordinance - Bicycle Lanes
Type: Ordinance Status: Tabled
File created: 1/3/2017 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/10/2017 Final action:
Title: Consider enacting Section 13-1-51.1 Bicycle Lanes of the Harrisonburg City Code
Attachments: 1. Memorandum, 2. Ordinance

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Consider enacting Section 13-1-51.1 Bicycle Lanes of the Harrisonburg City Code

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Presented By:  City Attorney BrownRecommendation and Review

 

Presently, the locations of many bus stops require Harrisonburg Department of Public Transit (HDPT) vehicles to stop in bicycle lanes temporarily, in order to allow passengers to board and disembark. Section 13-1-51.1 clarifies that HDPT vehicles, including school buses, are permitted to stop in bicycle lanes for this limited purpose and only after ensuring it would be safe to do so, while additionally clarifying that this is the sole circumstance in which a vehicle is permitted to stop in a bicycle lane.