This is an interesting conversation. Since I'm on the east coast, I've never seen a bicycle on a freeway. Since I'm a bit of a road geek, I ask this very question of my fellow road geeks on our discussion forum. It seems many states have explicit laws allowing bicycles on the highway. Follow it here: http://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=14452.0
Elliott On Mon Jan 12 2015 at 1:51:25 PM Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:43 PM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> By contrast, I am not aware of any Interstate highways in the >> southeast USA that allow bicycles. From my experience, every entrance ramp >> has signs forbidding non-motorized traffic and mopeds. >> > > All the more reason to explicitly tag it, since it's explicitly posted. > Of course, the bigger trick is finding the endpoints of that, since even in > states that do allow it (save for California), it's rare to get a "bicycles > on roadway" sign regularly (Oregon, Washington and Oklahoma usually only > post it once starting usually just before or at where bicycles first enter, > the corresponding sign the opposite direction would be "bikes must > exit/turn right/whatever" before and "no bicycles" after. And they tend to > be hard to spot because for whatever reason, USDOT thinks bicyclists can > read fonts as tall as my thumb is thick while moving (which means > information dense signage such as found in Portland for it's LCNs is next > to useless without stopping in traffic), so all bicycle signage tends to be > in the finest print possible, even on the freeway... > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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