Abington, PA Mobility & Curb Rules: Bike Lane Rules (2026)

Section 108-1 of the Township Code lists prohibited acts 'intended to promote the general safety, health, comfort and convenience of the township.' Subsection D bars driving any wagon, cart, automobile or other vehicle, or riding any bicycle or motorcycle, or coasting or sled-riding, upon any sidewalk within Abington Township. The only carved-out activity is crossing a sidewalk to reach a driveway connecting the public highway to private property; riders cannot otherwise treat the sidewalk as a travel lane. The article dates to Ordinance No. 742, adopted February 11, 1954, and sits alongside other general nuisances such as dumping debris on public highways, throwing handbills onto porches, and letting a dog bark continually.

Abington Township Police enforce the article. Because the ordinance predates the township's later traffic and bicycle regulations, it remains the operative sidewalk-riding rule even though it was not amended when Chapter 155 (Traffic Control) or Chapter 162 (Zoning) were later adopted. A cyclist stopped riding on a sidewalk in a business district or residential neighborhood is charged under this section, not under the vehicle code, because Pennsylvania's Title 75 leaves sidewalk-use regulation to the local nuisance ordinance.