Proposal:Foot cycleway
| Shared foot- and cycleway | |
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| Proposal status: | Draft (under way) |
| Proposed by: | ulamm |
| Tagging: | highway=foot_cycleway |
| Applies to: | linear |
| Definition: | Slim tagging of a path or track that is designated for shared use of pedestrians and cyclists on eqal rights. |
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| Rendered as: | Shape and colours of the sigature shall be between those of footway and cycletrack |
| Draft started: | 2014-12-28 |
| RFC start: | 2014-12-28 |
Several coutries have sideways as well as indepdent tracks and paths for shared use of pedestrians and cyclists, marked by a special road sign. This shared use on equal rights has to be distinguished from the permission to cycle on footways in pedestrian speed.
Rationale
Nowadays, such ways are recorded by a combination of four tags: highway=path or highway=cycleway with bicycle=designated + foot=designated + segregated=no, this does not even include the necessary recording of the cycling direction or bidirectionality and (in a country that provides both possibilities) obligatory vs. optional, nor informations on surface (also inevitable) and widths.
Such a standard class of ways has to be defined by one tag instead of four ones: highway=foot_cycleway
International survey
| no image | Australia | sign R8-2 |
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Austria | left: sign 17a-a, obligatory (for both) right: sign 28a, optional for cyclists) |
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Belgium | sign D10 |
| none | Brasilia | |
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Canada | |
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Czech Republic | sign C 9a |
| none | Denmark | |
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Finland | sign 423 |
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France | left: shared zone for pedestrians and cyclists right: sign C115 on greenways |
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Germany | sign 240 |
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Greece | sign P66 |
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Hungary | sign D-027 |
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Israel | |
| none | Italy | |
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Japan | sign 325-3 |
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Norway | sign 522.0 |
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Poland | sign C-13-16 |
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Portugal | sign D7e |
| ? | Romania | |
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Russia | sign 4.5.2 |
| none [3] | South Africa | |
| none | Spain | |
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Sweden | sign D6 |
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Switzerland | sign 2.63.1 |
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United Kingdom | sign 956 |
| none | USA |
Name
- Why not simply highway=foot_cycle?
- The term ought to be available also for roadline-tagged tracks, such as
- highway=secundary + foot_cycleway:right=forward + cycleway:left=backward + sidewalk=left.
- Why not highway=footcycleway?
- That won't be wrong. It's a matter of dicussion, if the name with or without underscore is preferred.
Tagging
Like highway=footway and highway=cycleway
Rendering
Signature in an intermediate colour between footway colour and cycleway colour.
Routing
Speed score below carriageways and pure cycletracks, but better than tracks and paths with "footway/cycling permitted"-signs.
