Tag:bicycle=no

bicycle = 
Description
Indicates that riding bicycle is not allowed. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: restrictions
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)may be used on relations
Status: de facto
More details at taginfo
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This tag is used to express that cycling on given object such as highway=tertiary is not allowed.

If the sign tells the rider to dismount or walk the bike, use bicycle=dismount instead of this tag.

Examples

Example Tagging

(on way representing highway)

(on node representing crossing)

(on way representing boardwalk)

(on way representing walkway on a bridge)

Pushing bicycle

Sign prohibiting riding bicycles.
Sign prohibiting both riding and pushing bicycles.

Note that carrying or pushing bicycles may be still accepted[2][3].

In some places it is illegal to both ride and push bicycle but it is legal to walk[4], there is no good tagging scheme to indicate it[5], bicycle_pushed=no and bicycle_possession=no were suggested[6][7].

Objects where both cycling and walking (foot=no + bicycle=no) such as typical motorway are not problematic, as dismounting and walking while pushing bicycle is clearly not OK. There is also bicycle=dismount for tagging places where one is allowed to push bicycle but not allowed to cycle. Note that while roads/footways completely banning even pushing bicycles are quite rare compared to ones where just cycling is not allowed, bicycle= is far more popular than bicycle=dismount. It is used over 942 000 times together with highway=*[8] while bicycle=dismount just 73 000 times[9]. It indicates that majority of mappers is using bicycle= to indicate places where pushing bicycle is OK.

Even if someone is using bicycle= with intention to state that pushing/carrying bicycle there is forbidden it is impossible to distinguish bicycle= mapped with meaning "no cycling" and "no presence of bicycles is allowed". It makes bicycle= and bicycle=dismount tags a de facto equivalent.

Note that some mappers used bicycle= to mark "not even carrying/pushing bicycle here is legal".

See also

References

  1. ↑ strictly speaking it is legal during very bad weather or when cycling with a small child
  2. ↑ https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/9158
  3. ↑ https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2013-October/thread.html#15135
  4. ↑ see bicycle=dismount for examples
  5. ↑ https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-November/thread.html#49044
  6. ↑ https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-November/049072.html
  7. ↑ https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2020-July/054178.html
  8. ↑ https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/bicycle=no#combinations
  9. ↑ https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/bicycle=dismount#combinations
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