Legal to ride bike in the blocked-off area of road construction zone?

sckego

doesn't like crashing
In areas where road construction blocks off the bike lane/shoulder, is it legal for me to ride in the inside of the cones/barriers, in the blocked off areas? Or do I legally have to merge out into traffic? Speed limit on the below road is 50mph, and I'm definitely not doing anything close to that...

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Oh man Kegan....
Do you even really need to ask this one?

I would think that anything work zone related is way over protected and you would be slapped pretty heavily with a fine for driving/riding inside their work zone.
Unless maybe your talking on a bicycle. (but even then???)

Work Zone Safety (dot) org

189 California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) employees have been killed on the job since 1921. Caltrans is teaming up with the California State Transportation Agency, California Highway Patrol, and the California Office of Traffic Safety, to launch a new “Be Work Zone Alert” public awareness campaign to remind drivers to slow down when passing highway workers.
 

berth

Well-known member
Bicycles have to obey the same CVCs as all other vehicles.

But. Not to be an annoying pedant, nobody has cited the CVC that says to do so.

Yes, it's common sense.

But. What's the CVC, and what's the penalty if you do.

I always wondered about ROAD CLOSED signs too.
 

dravnx

Well-known member
But. Not to be an annoying pedant, nobody has cited the CVC that says to do so.

Yes, it's common sense.

But. What's the CVC, and what's the penalty if you do.

I always wondered about ROAD CLOSED signs too.

You can Google just as well as anyone else can.
 

sckego

doesn't like crashing
Yeah, I kind of figured that was the case, but it seems a bit dumb. I'm going to be holding up cars that are usually doing 60+, and I'm doing maybe 15... This section of road has a nice bike lane that's usually 10' wide, and there is no warning that it is closed until you are past the last place to exit before the construction.

But. Not to be an annoying pedant, nobody has cited the CVC that says to do so.

Yes, it's common sense.

But. What's the CVC, and what's the penalty if you do.

I always wondered about ROAD CLOSED signs too.

Literally the first item in Article 4 (Operation of Bicycles):

DIVISION 11. RULES OF THE ROAD [21000 - 23336] ( Division 11 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. )
CHAPTER 1. Obedience to and Effect of Traffic Laws [21000 - 21296] ( Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. )

ARTICLE 4. Operation of Bicycles [21200 - 21213] ( Article 4 added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 479. )

21200. (a) (1) A person riding a bicycle or operating a pedicab upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this division.
 

cheez

Master Of The Darkside
It's in 21367.

VEHICLE CODE - VEH
DIVISION 11. RULES OF THE ROAD [21000 - 23336] ( Division 11 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. )
CHAPTER 2. Traffic Signs, Signals, and Markings [21350 - 21468] ( Chapter 2 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. )

ARTICLE 1. Erection and Maintenance [21350 - 21376] ( Article 1 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. )

21367.
(a) As provided in Section 125 of the Streets and Highways Code and in Section 21100 of this code, respectively, the duly authorized representative of the Department of Transportation or local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, including, but not limited to, persons contracting to perform construction, maintenance, or repair of a highway, may, with the approval of the department or local authority, as the case may be, and while engaged in the performance of that work, restrict the use of, and regulate the movement of traffic through or around, the affected area whenever the traffic would endanger the safety of workers or the work would interfere with or endanger the movement of traffic through the area. Traffic may be regulated by warning signs, lights, appropriate control devices, or by a person or persons controlling and directing the flow of traffic.

(b) It is unlawful to disobey the instructions of a person controlling and directing traffic pursuant to subdivision (a).

(c) It is unlawful to fail to comply with the directions of warning signs, lights, or other control devices provided for the regulation of traffic pursuant to subdivision (a).
 

TheRiddler

Riddle me this.
Adding to the above:

21200.  

(a) (1) A person riding a bicycle or operating a pedicab upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this division, including, but not limited to, provisions concerning driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages or drugs, and by Division 10 (commencing with Section 20000), Section 27400, Division 16.7 (commencing with Section 39000), Division 17 (commencing with Section 40000.1), and Division 18 (commencing with Section 42000), except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.
 

thedub

Octane Socks
Yeah, I kind of figured that was the case, but it seems a bit dumb. I'm going to be holding up cars that are usually doing 60+, and I'm doing maybe 15...

You wont be holding anyone up because there is more than enough space in the open section of road for a car and a bicycle. I would just ride in the lane of traffic but hugging those cones as close as possible.
 

orbframe

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
But. Not to be an annoying pedant, nobody has cited the CVC that says to do so.

Yes, it's common sense.

But. What's the CVC, and what's the penalty if you do.

I always wondered about ROAD CLOSED signs too.

and to add on, as others have pointed out the VC which requires adherence by bicycles, to answer the question of "penalty" the penalty is the same penalty you'd get for violating said section in a car or other "traditional" vehicle
 
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