Pedestrians
Maryland 2024 Regular Session
State Highway Administration - Sidewalks and Bicycle Pathways - Maintenance and Repair [HB-263]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the State Highway Administration to maintain and repair certain sidewalks and bicycle pathways instead of the political subdivision in which the sidewalks and bicycle pathways are located; requiring the Administration to maintain and repair sidewalks adjacent to State highways; and requiring the political subdivision in which certain sidewalks and bicycle pathways are located to remove snow and ice from those sidewalks and bicycle pathways.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Bicycles and certain other vehicles; regulations when riding in traffic. [HB-1266]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Traffic; bicycles and certain other vehicles. Clarifies that the roadways on which bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, motorized skateboards or scooters, or mopeds are exempt from the requirement to ride as close as safely practicable to the right curb include those not wide enough to allow an overtaking motor vehicle to pass as required by law. The bill removes the requirement for persons riding bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, or motorized
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Pedestrian control signals; applicability to persons riding bicycles and other devices. [HB-657]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Pedestrian control signals; applicability to persons riding bicycles and other devices. Allows persons riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, moped, or motorized skateboard or scooter to, while remaining in the travel lane, follow the pedestrian control signal corresponding to the person's direction of travel, provided that they travel straight or turn right and yield to pedestrians lawfully in the crosswalk and any vehicle approaching the intersection from the right. Pedestrian control signals;
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Counties - Construction of Sidewalks and Crosswalks - Safe Alternative Routes to Public Schools [SB-200]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring a county board of education each year to prepare and post to the county's website a report that identifies pathways that public school students may use to travel to school using only safe alternative routes under certain circumstances; requiring the governing body of a county each year to review a certain report and construct any sidewalks and crosswalks necessary to create safe alternative routes for public school students under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Bicycles, Play Vehicles, and Unicycles - Authorizations and Requirements [HB-111]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing a person to ride a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area unless prohibited by local ordinance; and requiring a person riding a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area or in or through a crosswalk to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian or a person using an electric personal assistive mobility device.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Bicycles, Play Vehicles, and Unicycles - Authorizations and Requirements [SB-77]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing a person to ride a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area unless prohibited by local ordinance; and requiring a person riding a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area or in or through a crosswalk to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian or a person using an electric personal assistive mobility device.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Transportation - Maryland Transportation Authority - Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and Accessibility [HB-135]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
Repealing a prohibition on pedestrians using a highway of the Maryland Transportation Authority; altering a prohibition on bicycles using an Authority highway; requiring the Authority to construct separated or buffered bicycle ways and pedestrian walkways in certain locations under certain circumstances; providing for a waiver from requirements under the Act; requiring the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee to review waiver requests under the Act and provide recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation; etc.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Urging The Department Of Transportation And The Department Of Transportation Services Of The City And County Of Honolulu To Construct Elevated Crosswalks Along Meheula Parkway Near Mililani High School. [SR-95]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
[Public Safety ]
[Education ]
Urging The Department Of Transportation And The Department Of Transportation Services Of The City And County Of Honolulu To Construct Elevated Crosswalks Along Meheula Parkway Near Mililani High School.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Urging The Department Of Transportation And The Department Of Transportation Services Of The City And County Of Honolulu To Construct Elevated Crosswalks Along Meheula Parkway Near Mililani High School. [SCR-106]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
[Public Safety ]
[Education ]
Urging The Department Of Transportation And The Department Of Transportation Services Of The City And County Of Honolulu To Construct Elevated Crosswalks Along Meheula Parkway Near Mililani High School.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Urging The Department Of Transportation And The Department Of Transportation Services Of The City And County Of Honolulu To Construct Elevated Crosswalks Along Meheula Parkway Near Mililani High School. [HCR-161]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
[Public Safety ]
[Education ]
Urging The Department Of Transportation And The Department Of Transportation Services Of The City And County Of Honolulu To Construct Elevated Crosswalks Along Meheula Parkway Near Mililani High School.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Urging The Department Of Transportation And The Department Of Transportation Services Of The City And County Of Honolulu To Construct Elevated Crosswalks Along Meheula Parkway Near Mililani High School. [HR-162]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
[Public Safety ]
[Education ]
Urging The Department Of Transportation And The Department Of Transportation Services Of The City And County Of Honolulu To Construct Elevated Crosswalks Along Meheula Parkway Near Mililani High School.
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Maine 131st Legislature
An Act to Allow Hitchhiking at Night [HB-800]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
An Act to Allow Hitchhiking at Night
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program [HB-1089]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Food ]
Establishing the Maryland Redeemable Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; establishing a framework for the redemption of redeemable beverage containers sold in the State; requiring that each redeemable beverage container sold in the State depict certain information beginning January 1, 2025; etc.
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Maine 131st Legislature
An Act to Improve Pedestrian Safety [SB-409]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
An Act to Improve Pedestrian Safety
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Pedestrians. [SB-1479]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Increases from $100 to $200 the fine imposed against an adult pedestrian who improperly crosses the street if the pedestrian does so while accompanied by a minor under the age of 15.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Crosswalk Safety. [SB-1174]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Requires the Department of Transportation to program intersections to allow walk signals to commence four seconds before the green light is given to motor vehicle traffic when the walk button has been pressed.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Pedestrians. [SB-926]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizes pedestrians to act contrary to the statewide traffic code when a reasonably careful pedestrian would determine that there is no immediate danger of a collision with a moving vehicle. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Pedestrians; drivers stopping at certain signs. [SB-1069]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Drivers stopping for pedestrians; certain signs; stops. Requires the driver of a vehicle on a highway approaching a pedestrian who is crossing such highway to stop when such pedestrian is within the driver's lane or within an adjacent lane and approaching the driver's lane. Currently, a driver is required to yield the right-of-way to such pedestrian by stopping and remaining stopped. The bill also provides that localities that are already authorized to install signs directing motor vehicles to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians crossing or attempting
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Safe Access for All (SAFE) Roads Act of 2023 [HB-70]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Department of Transportation to implement all possible incremental near-term safety improvements as soon as practicable if a new approved pedestrian or bicycle safety construction or improvement project is projected to take more than 12 months to complete.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Safe Access for All (SAFE) Roads Act of 2023 [SB-16]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the Department of Transportation to recommend and implement certain design elements for pedestrian and bicycle safety when developing any construction or improvement project, or postconstruction project, preservation, or maintenance; and requiring the State Highway Administration to submit certain reports including pedestrian and bicycle safety data, analyses, and plans to the General Assembly by certain dates.