Birmingham operates a growing network of protected and conventional bike lanes including the 20th Street, First Avenue North, and Rotary Trail corridors, with motor vehicles prohibited from parking, stopping, or driving in marked bike lanes.
Birmingham's Department of Transportation has expanded the bicycle network under the Red Rock Trail master plan, linking downtown to Sloss Furnaces, Avondale, and Five Points South. Protected lanes on 20th Street and First Avenue North use vertical delineators or planters; conventional lanes are striped on neighborhood arterials. Vehicle drivers must not enter, stop, park, or block bike lanes except briefly when entering driveways or making legal turns. Cyclists are required to ride with traffic, signal turns, and use lights at night per Alabama Code 32-5A-260 and following sections.
Parking in a bike lane: $50-$100 fine plus possible tow; driving in a bike lane: standard moving-violation penalty under state law.
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