Bill Text: HI SB574 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Bill 574 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating To Bicycle Lanes.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-09 - The committee on TRS deferred the measure. [SB574 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2021-SB574-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	574
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Relating to bicycle LANES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were eight hundred fifty-seven bicyclists killed in traffic crashes in the United States in 2018. The legislature further finds that there has been an increase in bicycling in Hawaii during the coronavirus pandemic. As a result of the increase in bicycling, there have been four bicycle crash fatalities in 2020 in the State. Indeed, the State's roads often do not provide enough space for bicycles and cars to share the road. Yet, the city and county of Honolulu is dedicated to making Oahu a bicycle-friendly place.

The purpose of this Act is to require the department of transportation to create a development plan to widen shoulders on state highways with designated bike lanes to at least three feet in width, with exceptions.

SECTION 2. The department of transportation shall create a development plan to ensure that, to the greatest extent feasible, whenever a bike way is designated along a state highway that a paved shoulder at least three feet in width shall be included; provided that exceptions may be made for sections of a state highway that cross a bridge or run alongside a natural obstruction that would make a three‑foot wide shoulder infeasible.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Bicycle Lanes; Development Plan; Department of Transportation

Description:

Requires the department of transportation to create a development plan to widen shoulders on state highways with designated bike lanes to at least three feet in width, with exceptions.

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