Interstate highways in the US that allow bicycles

[NE2]

All it would take is a lawsuit if it's far enough away from an alternate- there's a giant body of case law that supports it.

This is apparently why I-79 over the Ohio is open to bikes - someone lived on one side and worked on the other.

[bandit957]

Is it actually enforceably illegal? One thing I've learned in the last year or so is that traffic "prohibitions" often are advisory- even things like speed limit regulatory signs can be non-enforceable if the speed limit was improperly established. On a road like I-275 over a river crossing, if you tried to ride a bike, would a cop actually ticket?

I think I've seen bicyclists using I-275 at the Licking River maybe once in the 38 years since that bridge opened. The police would probably issue a ticket, but I've never tried biking on that stretch.

[NE2]

You're white, so they'll probably warn you.

[Pete from Boston]

Perhaps its not my question to ask, but why is someone cycling in an area where there are no other roads? Mountain passes and literally bumfuck nowhere are the only places without rural roads, both places where there the safety risk posed by cycling 10 feet from a car going 6 to 8 times faster should most certainly trump the convenience factor.

This may be the first time someone has referred to the "convenience" of riding a bicycle across the rural West.

People who choose to ride on the Interstate shoulder know what they're doing.

Fine. But I'm not covering the costs when the state gets sued for negligence.

Using what exemption?

[texaskdog]

I-90 in South Dakota

[jakeroot]

Perhaps its not my question to ask, but why is someone cycling in an area where there are no other roads? Mountain passes and literally bumfuck nowhere are the only places without rural roads, both places where there the safety risk posed by cycling 10 feet from a car going 6 to 8 times faster should most certainly trump the convenience factor.

This may be the first time someone has referred to the "convenience" of riding a bicycle across the rural West.

The convenience of not having to use rural two-lane highways.

People who choose to ride on the Interstate shoulder know what they're doing.

Fine. But I'm not covering the costs when the state gets sued for negligence.

Using what exemption?

Please elaborate. I'm only an expert on law from what I've seen on the occasional Law & Order episode and my local TV news.

My thought is that drunk drivers are constantly running into parked cruisers on the freeway shoulder ... what's stopping them from hitting a cyclist? With the state full well knowing this could happen, I'm saying the state is being negligent by allowing cyclists to use the freeway given the inherent danger of doing so. And if it isn't a drunk driver, it's a drowsy driver drifting a bit into the shoulder.

Look, I'm not an ambulance chaser, but a lot of people are.

[Pete from Boston]

Perhaps its not my question to ask, but why is someone cycling in an area where there are no other roads? Mountain passes and literally bumfuck nowhere are the only places without rural roads, both places where there the safety risk posed by cycling 10 feet from a car going 6 to 8 times faster should most certainly trump the convenience factor.

This may be the first time someone has referred to the "convenience" of riding a bicycle across the rural West.

The convenience of not having to use rural two-lane highways.

I thought we were talking about situations where there was no reasonable alternative. You may argue that reasonable in this case equals simply convenient, but that does not seem to be the standard on which these things are judged.

People who choose to ride on the Interstate shoulder know what they're doing.

Fine. But I'm not covering the costs when the state gets sued for negligence.

Using what exemption?

Please elaborate.

You are covering the costs.

In any case, I'm sure if it's been going on a long time then the legality and understood risk has been addressed.  We're too litigious a society for that not to be the case.