Bill Text: CA AB2744 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Vehicles: pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicle safety.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-22 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2744 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2744-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 08, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member McCarty |
February 15, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
(3) Existing law prohibits a person from driving a motor vehicle in a bicycle lane except, among other exceptions, to prepare for a turn within a distance of 200 feet from the intersection.
This bill would clarify that the turn is a right turn and would only allow the right turn if the right turn is from an exclusive right-turn lane. The bill would define bicycle lane for these purposes to mean a Class I, II, or IV bikeway, as defined.
(4) Existing law prohibits the placement or parking of any bicycle, vehicle, or any other object upon a Class I bikeway, as defined, that impedes the normal and reasonable movement of any bicyclist unless the placement or parking is necessary for safe operation or is otherwise in compliance with the law. A violation of the
Vehicle Code is an infraction.
This bill would prohibit the placement and parking of any bicycle or vehicle on Class II and IV bikeways, as defined and excepted.
By expanding the scope of an infraction, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.
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Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1803.5 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:1803.5.
(b)Unless the area within 20 feet of a marked or unmarked crosswalk is already marked as a dedicated right-turn lane before January 1, 2025, vehicles shall not use the 20-foot area for right turns.
SEC. 2.
Section 21207.1 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:21207.1.
A local authority may permit the installation of a bicycle lane within 20 feet of a crosswalk.SEC. 2.SEC. 3.
Section 21209 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:21209.
(a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle in a bicycle lane established on a roadway pursuant to Section 21207 except as follows:(b)For purposes of this section, “bicycle lane” means a Class I, II, or IV bikeway, as defined in Section 890.4 of the Streets and Highways Code.
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(a)No person may stop, stand, sit, or loiter upon any Class I bikeway, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 890.4 of the Streets and Highways Code, or any other public or private bicycle path or trail, if the stopping, standing, sitting, or loitering impedes or blocks the normal and reasonable movement of any bicyclist.
(b)No person may place or park any bicycle, vehicle, or any other object upon any
Class I, II, or IV bikeway, as defined in Section 890.4 of the Streets and Highways Code, which impedes or blocks the normal and reasonable movement of any bicyclist, except in either of the following circumstances:
(1)The placement or parking is necessary for safe operation or is otherwise in compliance with the law.
(2)The loading or unloading of a commercial vehicle within 20 feet of the vehicle approach side of any marked or unmarked crosswalk or within 15 feet of any crosswalk where a curb extension is present pursuant to Section 22500.
(c)This section does not apply to drivers or owners of utility or public utility vehicles, as provided in Section 22512.
(d)This section does not apply to owners or drivers of vehicles who make brief stops while engaged in the delivery of newspapers to
customers along the person’s route.
(e)This section does not apply to the driver or owner of a rubbish or garbage truck while actually engaged in the collection of rubbish or garbage within a business or residence district if the front turn signal lamps at each side of the vehicle are being flashed simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps at each side of the vehicle are being flashed simultaneously.
(f)This section does not apply to the driver or owner of a tow vehicle while actually engaged in the towing of a vehicle if the front turn signal lamps at each side of the vehicle are being flashed simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps at each side of the vehicle are being flashed simultaneously.
SEC. 4.
Section 21450.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:21450.5.
(a) A traffic-actuated signal is an official traffic control signal, as specified in Section 445, that displays one or more of its indications in response to the presence of traffic detected by mechanical, visual, electrical, or other means.(c)Cities, counties, and cities and counties
shall be required to comply with the provisions contained in subdivision (b).
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SEC. 5.
Section 21722 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:21722.
Notwithstanding Section 22500, unless the area within 20 feet of a marked or unmarked crosswalk is already marked as a dedicated right-turn lane before January 1, 2025, vehicles shall not use the 20-foot area for right turns.SEC. 6.
Section 21808 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:21808.
The driver of a vehicle intending to turn left or right upon a highway, or to turn left or right into public or private property, or an alley, shall yield the right-of-way to any bicyclist that is within 200 feet before the highway, public or private property, or alley.SEC. 5.SEC. 7.
Section 22500 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:22500.
A person shall not stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer or official traffic control device, in any of the following places:(B)The installation of a bicycle lane within 20 feet of a crosswalk.