I live in the Southeast USA, and have never seen an Interstate on-ramp that lacked signs forbidding all non-motorized traffic, as well as "motor-driven cycles" (the official term for mopeds). Some non-Interstate limited-access freeways allow bicycles, some don't.
As far as I know, the only US Interstates that allow bicycles are in the Western United States. "Motorway" is not a standard term in US English, except as people have borrowed the term from British usage. I gather that it is a legal term-of-art in the UK. I don't know any details about its use in Canada. -------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites From :mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org Date :Sun Mar 06 19:21:03 America/Chicago 2011 On 03/06/2011 07:13 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2011/3/7 Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org>: >> In most states and the vast majority of provinces, bicycles are >> generally permitted except on older sections that lack proper shoulders >> or have exceptionally difficult-to-cross ramps, in which case it's >> explicitly posted at the entrance to this effect anyway. As a rule in >> the US and Canada, all modes are permitted unless explicitly excluded >> per the MUTCD. Only 23 states and as far as I'm aware no provinces ban >> bicycles on all freeways > > that's the rules for freeways then, not for motorways. OK, so.. this isn't a motorway? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_5 Save for brief segments in Oregon and Washington, it's open to bicycles it's entire length. Or this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_84_(west) Open to bicycles even in cities except where there's difficult to cross ramps or a lack of shoulders. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
