[Tagging] Can highway=cycleway be limited to MTB?

[brad]

On 4/2/20 10:02 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 11:54 AM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
>> However, around me there is a convention that any
>> dirt/unimproved/in-the-woods sort of thing is path, and
>> in-town/paved/manicured sorts of are highway=footway.
> I started tagging trails as 'path' - and found that the locals
> immediately changed them to 'footway' or 'cycleway' except for shared
> paths. 'surface' and 'smoothness' are better ways to disambiguate
> whether we're talking about a rocky singletrack or an asphalt
> rail-trail.
How many trails are there that are not shared use?
>> I am mildly curious how many places there are in mountain bike trails
>> that prohibit hikers.   Around me, every trail  that is open at all is
>> open to hiking, and some are open to bicycles and horses, some aren't.
>> (Additionally some are closed to bicyles and horses when wet.)
> As I said in my earlier post, there are some around here that are
> specifically posted for MTB use. I don't think hiking on them is
> exactly prohibited, but it's surely discouraged. Obviously, you won't
> get a ticket for hiking out with a disabled bike or whatever, but you
> really shouldn't plan to go hiking there. A number of those trails are
> designated for x-c ski in the winter, and hiking on ski tracks would
> be extremely inconsiderate, whether it's lawful or not.
Out west, I don't think there are any public trails that I've come 
across that ban hikers.  The exception would be ski areas that have 
developed downhill mtb trails.