Police to Bikers: Stay Off the Sidewalk

If you’ve been riding your bike on the sidewalk, you’re doing something wrong.

The Burlingame Police Department announced Thursday it has recently received a growing number of complaints regarding cyclists using the sidewalks.

Reports have included bicycles getting in the way of pedestrian movement and presenting collision hazards for both vehicles and pedestrians leaving businesses and homes.

The Burlingame Police Department has provided this excerpt explaining proper bicycle usage from the City’s municipal code:

13.52.100 Keeping to right—Two abreast—Riding on sidewalks: Every person riding or operating a bicycle on any public street, alley or public place in the city shall keep to the extreme right of the traffic lane, and it is unlawful for two (2) or more bicycles to travel abreast. It is unlawful for any person to ride or operate a bicycle on the sidewalk in any of the business districts of the city, and no bicycle shall be operated on the sidewalk in any of the residential districts when and where the sidewalk is being used by pedestrians. (1941 Code § 1476)

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