Wikipedia seems to be incomplete on this; I'm presently unaware of any state that has a statewide prohibition.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:22 AM, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: > On February 9, 2015 4:32:36 AM CST, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com> >> wrote: >> >>> In the USA occasional sections of even Interstate highways are open to >>> bicycles, >>> where no equivalent route exists. There's some argument to tag these as >>> bike paths to avoid the tag soup of lanes, >>> and ensure the (unusual) situation is perfectly clear. >>> >> >> This is not a sensible assumption and I'm frankly getting a little sick >> of having to mythbust this every few weeks just because 98% of America >> happens to live next to the few, largely urban, exceptions to the norm. >> It's not anywhere as rare as you make it out to be. The Federal Highway >> Administration indicates that the default for any way in the US unless >> otherwise locally defined, even freeways, is bicycle=yes >> <http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bicycle_pedestrian/guidance/design_guidance/freeways.cfm>. >> Bicycles even qualify for the HOV lane unless it presents a hazard. >> >> Even in car-centric regions like California, the number of freeway miles >> that ban bikes is greatly overshadowed by the vast majority of miles that >> go by the default of allowing bicycles. In my experience, with a few >> goofball exceptions largely in the midwest (such as, say, various sections >> of US 75, US 412 and (to a far lesser extent) I 40 in Oklahoma that have a >> minimum speed limit, yet is the only sensible route and in some cases the >> only physically possible route, and thus the ban is both routinely ignored >> and rarely enforced for the same reason it isn't enforced on farm equipment >> (which poses a far greater hazard as this equipment often spans multiple >> lanes) either; however I do try to tag anything that isn't a bike route and >> has a minimum speed limit as bicycle=no per Oklahoma's legal idiosyncrasy), >> there's very few segments except for the most urban settings where a ban is >> even a sensible suggestion in the first place. Wyoming could be retagged >> right now if it isn't already: There's not one spot in the freeway >> system in that state that bans bicycles >> <http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/data/state.cfm?ID=51#state>. >> >> Can we finally bury this myth that bicycle=no is somehow even remotely >> the norm for American freeways? That said, regardless of the restriction, >> it's a good idea to tag bicycle=* and foot=* explicitly on trunk and >> motorway routes as there still seems to be widespread misconception on this >> and could interfere with ideal routing if excluded. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > According to < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-motorized_access_on_freeways>, 14 US > states out of 50 allow bicycle use on Interstate highways. Wyoming is the > only state that allows it state-wide. So, 72% of US states don't allow > bicycles on Interstates. I don't have the percentages by highway mile > available, but I would call a 72% majority the norm. > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com > "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot > drive out hate: only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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