Collierville, TN Mobility & Curb Rules: Bike Lane Rules (2026)

Section 71.15 of the Collierville Code of Ordinances is the Town's riding-rules section for bicycles. It speaks of roadways, sidewalks and curbs, not of marked lanes, so the enforceable duties are the ones printed there.

Division (A) puts every person riding a bicycle, motorcycle or motor driven cycle under all traffic ordinances, rules and regulations of the Town that apply to drivers of other vehicles, except provisions that by their nature cannot apply. A rider on a Collierville street therefore stops at signals and obeys signs like any driver. Division (B) requires the rider to sit on the permanent and regular seat, and division (C) bars carrying more persons than the vehicle is designed and equipped for. Division (D) bars carrying any package, bundle or article that prevents the rider from keeping both hands upon the handlebar.

Division (I) says no person shall ride a bicycle upon a sidewalk within a business district. Division (J) authorizes the Chief of Police to erect signs on any sidewalk or roadway prohibiting the riding of bicycles, and once a sign is in place no person shall disobey it.

Division (K) governs parking: a bicycle goes on the roadway against the curb, or on the sidewalk in a rack, or against a building, in a way that affords the least obstruction to pedestrian traffic. Division (L) requires every bicycle in use at night to carry a front lamp emitting white light visible from at least 500 feet and a red rear reflector visible from 50 feet to 300 feet when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps.

Inside Town parks, § 90.07(J) and (K) add that bicycles stay on paved vehicular roads or paths designated for that purpose, ride on the right-hand side, and keep single file in a group.