§ 12.60.135. Bicycle lanes.

A.

Every person operating a motor vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a person operating a bicycle within a bicycle lane. A person operating a motor vehicle may cross a bicycle lane when making a turn or when entering or leaving the roadway, but a bicycle lane shall not be used as turning lane or passing lane.

B.

Motor vehicles should not be parked, stopped or left standing in bicycle lanes unless the metropolitan traffic and parking commission has determined that parking within the bicycle lane in specific locations is appropriate during certain hours and signs have been erected in the designated area(s) to that effect.

C.

A person operating a bicycle within a bicycle lane shall give an audible signal when passing another person operating a bicycle proceeding in the same direction and shall further pass on the left.

D.

A person operating a bicycle entering a bicycle lane shall yield the right-of-way to all bicycles in the bicycle lane. A person operating a bicycle leaving a bicycle lane shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles and pedestrians. No person operating a bicycle lane shall leave it until the movement can be made with reasonable safety and, if any vehicle would be affected by the movement, by giving an appropriate signal before the movement is made.

E.

A person operating a bicycle within a bicycle lane shall travel in the same direction as motor vehicles traveling in the adjacent traffic lane.

(Ord. BL2008-307 § 2, 2008; Ord. 99-1815 § 10, 1999)