-
DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
NOTICE OF FINAL RULEMAKING
The Director of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), pursuant to the authority set forth in Sections 5(3)(A) (providing for a safe transportation system); 6(b) (transferring to the Department the traffic management function previously delegated to the Department of Public Works (DPW) under Section III (H) of Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1983); and 7 (making Director of DDOT the successor to transportation related authority delegated to the Director of DPW) of the Department of Transportation Establishment Act of 2002, effective May 21, 2002 (D.C. Law 14-137; D.C. Official Code §§ 50-921.04(3)(D), 50-921.05(b), and 50-921.06 (2009 Repl. & 2012 Supp.)); and Mayor’s Order 77-127, dated August 3, 1977, hereby gives notice of this final action to adopt the following rulemaking that will amend Chapter 22 of Title 18 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).
The rules will prohibit U-turns across bicycle lanes, including the bicycle lane on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Proposed regulations were published in a Notice of Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking on December 7, 2012 in the D.C. Register at 59 DCR 14072. DDOT received no comments in response to this rulemaking. No substantive changes were made to the text of the proposed rulemaking.
DDOT adopted these rules as final on April 12, 2013. The rules will go into effect upon the date of publication of this Notice of Final Rulemaking in the D.C. Register.
Section 2204 of Chapter 22 of Title 18 (Moving Violations), is amended by adding a new Subsection 2204.10 to read as follows:
2204.10 No vehicle shall make a U-turn so as to proceed in the opposite direction across a bicycle lane.
