Fiscal Note
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Title
Repealing and recreating Section 12.905 to update the mass transit ways in the City of Madison to reflect current road uses and designate the bus rapid transit routes as mass transit ways.
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: The City’s Mass Transit Ways ordinance section is out of date. This amendment updates and re-structures the section to group similar types of lane restrictions. It also incorporates the lane restrictions of the recently established Bus Rapid Transit routes into the ordinance. Most of the changes herein reflect already authorized signage. However, subsections (2) and (3) add a new restriction to certain bus lanes, indicating that such lane segments are exclusively for municipally-owned transit buses rather than all motor buses.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Section 12.905 entitled “Mass Transit Ways and Preferential Land Use Designation” of the Madison General Ordinances is repealed and recreated as follows:
12.905 MASS TRANSIT WAYS AND PREFERENTIAL LAND USE DESIGNATION.
In addition to regulations and restrictions established pursuant to other sections of these ordinances, the following named roadways or parts of roadways in the City of Madison are hereby established under the provisions of Wis. Stat. §§ 349.22 and 349.23, for use by a particular class or classes of vehicles including but not limited to buses, carpools, taxis, and bicycles, and for certain vehicle operations such as turning and parking. For purposes of this section, a person may occupy a preferential use lane to make a permitted turn only as long as necessary to execute such turn and only with due regard for the reasonable safety of other lawful users of the preferential lane.
(1) The following roadways or parts of roadways are restricted to use by bicycles, buses, and right turns only:
(a) The west s...
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