§ 2101.041. Bikeway.

"Bikeway" means a facility that explicitly provides for bicycle and mobility device travel. A bikeway may vary from a completely separated facility to simple signed streets as follows:

(a)

"Shared-use path" (Class I Bikeway) means a bikeway outside the traveled way and physically separated from motorized vehicular traffic by an open space or barrier and either within the street or highway right-of-way or within an independent alignment. A shared-use path also may be used by pedestrians, including skaters, joggers, users of manual and motorized wheelchairs, users of mobility devices and other authorized motorized and non-motorized users.

(b)

"Bike lane" (Class II Bikeway) is a marked lane contiguous to a travel lane within a roadway for the exclusive or semi-exclusive operation of bicycles and mobility devices in the same direction as the adjacent travel lane. The bike lane is physically separated from motor vehicle traffic by painted lines, pavement coloration, curbing, parked vehicles or other barriers.(c) "Bike route" (Class III Bikeway) utilizes existing streets and roads. No separation of motor vehicle and bicycle and mobility device traffic is provided as only signs are present to indicate the course of the bike route.

(c)

"Bike Boulevards and Sharrows" (Class III Bikeway) utilize existing streets and roads with no separation of motor vehicle and bicycle and/or mobility device traffic provided. Pavement markings or signage is present to indicate the course of the bikeway only.

(Ord. 1050-77; Ord. 1987-2008 Attach. 1 (part); Ord. No. 1182-2014, § 2, 6-16-2014; Ord. No. 2539-2018 , § 2, 9-24-2018)