Edmonds, WA Mobility & Curb Rules: Bike Lane Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Bike lane parking
- Prohibited under ECC 8.48.190(B)(3)
- First offense fine
- $40.00 civil penalty
- Repeat offense fines
- $80, then $160 within one year
- Late response fee
- $20.00 after 30 days
- Enforcement
- Edmonds municipal court, notice within 48 hours
- Marking required
- Signs or yellow paint before enforceable
Summary
Edmonds bars drivers from stopping, standing or parking in any designated bike lane under ECC 8.48.190(B)(3). The same section also bans parking that narrows a travel lane below 10 feet or a cul-de-sac below a 35-foot radius. A first violation is a $40 civil parking infraction, rising to $80 and then $160 for repeat offenses within a year.
B. Except as otherwise permitted by the Edmonds City Code, no person may stop, stand or park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon any paved portion of a curbed street in the following manner: ... ... 3. Upon designated bike lanes.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 4444, passed August 3, 2026).
Full Breakdown
190 lists the specific ways a vehicle cannot be stopped, stood or parked on a curbed street, and subsection (B)(3) flatly bars leaving any vehicle, attended or unattended, upon a designated bike lane. The same subsection also forbids parking that would narrow a travel lane to less than 10 feet for same-direction traffic, or shrink a cul-de-sac's usable radius below 35 feet, so the rule reads together as a street-clearance standard that bike lanes share with general travel lanes rather than a rule aimed only at cyclists.
170, requires the city traffic engineer to mark restrictions with signs, yellow curb paint, or yellow pavement striping before any no-parking rule is enforceable, so a bike lane has to be physically designated on the pavement for this section to apply to it. 030. 200. 220 to be the person responsible for the violation.
Violations & Fines
Parking in a designated bike lane is a parking infraction carrying a $40.00 civil penalty under ECC 8.48.215(A)(1). A second infraction within one year still costs $40.00, a third rises to $80.00, and every subsequent infraction in the same year is $160.00. Anyone who does not respond to the notice within 30 days owes an additional $20.00 late fee under ECC 8.48.215(C).
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