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

025, adopted by Ordinance 5116 in 1996, targets sidewalk riding specifically in Glendale's business districts, commercial corridors rather than imposing a citywide sidewalk-riding ban. The default rule bars a bicyclist from riding or operating a bicycle on any public sidewalk in those business districts, but the section carves out an exception for any sidewalk 'officially designated as part of an established bicycle route,' meaning the city can post a route as a shared bike-and-pedestrian path even within a commercial district. Wherever that exception applies, the same section makes clear pedestrians still keep the right-of-way over the cyclist, so a rider on a designated sidewalk route must yield rather than expect priority.

025 exempts outright, business district or not, is a peace officer on bicycle patrol, who may ride the sidewalk while on duty regardless of the underlying restriction. 020, which separately bars any driver from operating a motor vehicle within a sidewalk area or parkway except when crossing a driveway, underscoring that Glendale treats sidewalks as pedestrian space that both cars and, in business districts, bicycles are generally kept off of. 025 does not itself restrict sidewalk cycling, though a rider anywhere in the city must still yield to pedestrians on a sidewalk as a matter of basic right-of-way.