Davis, CA Mobility & Curb Rules: Bike Lane Rules (2026)

040 sets the specific yield rule for entering a bicycle lane. Under that section, the operator of a bicycle emerging from an alley, driveway, bicycle path, building, or otherwise approaching a sidewalk or sidewalk area along such a spot must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians already on the sidewalk. The same operator, upon entering a bicycle lane, must yield to all bicycles already approaching on that lane, and upon entering the roadway itself must yield to all vehicles or bicycles already approaching on the roadway.

020, which requires bicyclists to obey official traffic control devices unless a police officer directs otherwise. 010 to erect or place signs establishing bicycle lanes and otherwise regulating how vehicles and bicycles use them, meaning the physical lane markings a rider sees on a Davis street are themselves an exercise of this code authority. 050), governing how a bicyclist facing a green, yellow or red bicycle-specific signal must proceed, stop or turn, distinct from the standard vehicle signal.