On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Simone Saviolo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simone.saviolo@gmail.com">simone.saviolo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
IMO, if the law defines motorways to have certain features, these<br>
should be implied.<br></blockquote><div><br>How about the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic:<br><br>[quote]"Motorway" means a road specially designed and built for motor traffic [plus other stuff]...[/quote]<br>
<br>[quote]<br>On motorways and, if so provided in domestic legislation, on special approach roads to and exit roads from motorways:<br><br>(a) The use of the road shall be prohibited to pedestrians, animals, <br>cycles, mopeds unless they are treated as motor cycles, and all vehicles other <br>
than motor vehicles and their trailers, and to motor vehicles or motor-vehicle <br>trailers which are incapable, by virtue of their design, of attaining on a flat <br>road a speed specified by domestic legislation<br>[/quote]<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:23 AM, John F.
Eldredge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@jfeldredge.com">john@jfeldredge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
If there are any motorways
in the USA that allow bicycles, they would be unusual, and probably be
roads under local or state jurisdiction, not federal (national)
jurisdiction. The Interstate highway system, usually cited as the US
equivalent of motorways, does not allow bicycles, animal-drawn vehicles,
or mopeds (all because of their low speeds), but does allow
motorcycles, automobiles, trucks, buses, etc.<br></blockquote><div><br>That's incorrect. There are interstates in the US which allow bicycles. And I'm not sure what you mean about a road being under federal jurisdiction. The laws which apply to the vast majority of interstate highways (i.e. ones which are not within a federal enclave) are state laws. The police that patrol these highways are state police.<br>
<br>See <a href="http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.htm">http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.htm</a><br><br>[quote]Each State establishes the operating rules that determine which
vehicles are allowed on the Interstate highways under their
jurisdiction. Most States do not allow bicyclists on the
Interstate shoulders, but bicycle use is permitted in some
States,
particularly in the west where there is less traffic and
where good
alternative routes may not exist for bicycles.[/quote]</div></div></div></div>