Peter asked <What do bike paths count as? Say, for example, the crossing of Willy St. at Riverside (the Yahara River)? >
Good question, and another situation where you need to look at more than section of the law to understand. It counts as a street, see below. We have detector loops in the path (you can see the cuts in the path for the loop wires) that are sensitive to bikes approaching from each direction, so please wait for the green there, it will come up. The rationale for the bike path being a street is: A street is defined as any public way open to vehicular traffic. A bicycle is defined as a vehicle. Ergo a bike path is a street on which motorized traffic is prohibited. Here are the specific legal definitions. 340.01 Words and phrases defined. In s. 23.33 and chs. 340 to 349 and 351, the following words and phrases have the designated meanings unless a different meaning is expressly provided or the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (64) "Street" means every highway within the corporate limits of a city or village except alleys. (22) "Highway" means all public ways and thoroughfares and bridges on the same. It includes the entire width between the boundary lines of every way open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular travel. It includes those roads or driveways in the state, county or municipal parks and in state forests which have been opened to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular travel and roads or driveways upon the grounds of public schools, as defined in s. 115.01 (1), and institutions under the jurisdiction of the county board of supervisors, but does not include private roads or driveways as defined in sub. (46). (5) "Bicycle" means every vehicle propelled by the feet acting upon pedals and having wheels any 2 of which are not less than 14 inches in diameter. Arthur Ross, Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator City of Madison Traffic Engineering Division 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Suite 100 PO Box 2986 Madison, WI 53701-2986 608/266-6225
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