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

01 of the Traffic Code, rewritten by Ordinance No. 4-2025 in January 2025, lists standing and parking prohibitions citywide, and Subsection (a)(4) specifically forbids stopping, standing or parking a vehicle within a designated bicycle lane, defining that lane as any portion of the roadway striped, signed or marked for the preferential or exclusive use of bicyclists. The section carves out thirteen situational exemptions: emergency vehicles actively responding to a call; vehicles doing work for the City, the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority or a public utility; solid waste and recycling collection; school buses with flashing safety lights engaged while loading children; vehicles actively picking up or dropping off a passenger, including a passenger with a disability; delivery vehicles actively dropping off mail, packages or food; vehicles actively loading or unloading property; contractors and landscapers actively performing home and garden service; vehicles complying with a police officer's direction; and a disabled vehicle whose driver cannot avoid stopping there.

Every exemption requires the vehicle to be 'actively engaged' in the qualifying activity, not simply idling in the lane. 10, and any vehicle parked in violation of Article 521 can be towed and impounded under Article 527 once a police officer follows the Chief of Police's towing procedures.