Florida Senate - 2011 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1180
Barcode 348722
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
03/30/2011 .
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The Committee on Transportation (Latvala) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 1506 and 1507
4 insert:
5 Section 33. Subsection (4) of section 316.091, Florida
6 Statutes, is amended to read
7 316.091 Limited access facilities; interstate highways; use
8 restricted.—
9 (4) No person shall operate a bicycle or other human-
10 powered vehicle on the roadway or along the shoulder of a
11 limited access highway including bridges unless official signs
12 and a designated marked bicycle lane are present at the entrance
13 of the section of highway indicating that such use is permitted
14 pursuant to a Department of Transportation pilot program an
15 interstate highway.
16 (5)The Department of Transportation shall establish a two
17 year pilot program, in three separate urban areas, in which it
18 shall erect signs and designated marked bicycle lanes indicating
19 highway approaches and bridge segments of limited access
20 highways as open to use by operators of bicycles and other human
21 powered vehicles, under the following conditions:
22 (a)The limited access highway approaches and bridge
23 segments chosen must cross a river, lake, bay, inlet, or surface
24 water, where no street or highway crossing the water body is
25 available for use within two miles of entrance to the limited
26 access facility, measured along the shortest public right-of
27 way.
28 (b) The Department of Transportation, with the concurrence
29 of the Federal Highway Administration on interstate facilities,
30 shall establish the three highway approaches and bridge segments
31 for the pilot project by October 1, 2011. In selecting the
32 highway approaches and bridge segments, The Department of
33 Transportation shall consider, without limitation, a minimum
34 size of population in the urban area within five miles of the
35 highway approach and bridge segment, the lack of bicycle access
36 by other means, cost, safety, and operational impacts.
37 (c) The Department of Transportation shall begin the pilot
38 program by erecting signs and designating marked bicycle lanes
39 indicating highway approaches and bridge segments of limited
40 access highway, as qualified by the conditions described in this
41 section, as open to use by operators of bicycles and other human
42 powered vehicles no later than January 1, 2012.
43 (d) The Department of Transportation shall conduct the
44 pilot program for a minimum of two years from the implementation
45 date. The Department is authorized to continue to provide
46 bicycle access on the highway approaches and bridge segments
47 chosen for the pilot program, or initiate bicycle access on
48 other limited access facilities after the end of the program.
49 (e) The Department of Transportation shall submit a report
50 of its findings and recommendations from the pilot program to
51 the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of
52 the House by September 1, 2014. The report shall include, at a
53 minimum, bicycle crash data occurring in designated segments of
54 the pilot program, usage by operators of bicycles and other
55 human powered vehicles, enforcement issues, operational impacts
56 and the cost of the pilot program.
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58 (5) (6)A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic
59 infraction, punishable as a moving violation as provided in
60 chapter 318.
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64 And the title is amended as follows:
65 Delete line 76
66 and insert:
67 changes to the act; amending s. 316.091, F.S.,