[OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

[john at jfeldredge.com]

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:baloo at 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 <baloo at 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.


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