Kent, WA Mobility & Curb Rules: Bike Lane Rules (2026)

180 lists the specific places where stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle is prohibited citywide, except when necessary to avoid a traffic conflict or when directed by a police officer or official traffic control device. Item 11 of subsection (A) singles out marked bicycle lanes: a driver may not stop, stand, or park within a marked bicycle lane, which the code defines as that portion of the paved roadway specified and marked by the city for the movement of bicycles. This sits alongside a longer list of prohibited locations in the same subsection, including sidewalks and planting strips, intersections, crosswalks, areas near safety zones, street excavations, bridges and elevated structures, railroad tracks, the crossover area of divided highways, individual on-street parking stalls outside their marked limits, work-on-vehicle zones, vehicle-for-sale display, and traffic islands.

The chapter also separately bars a driver from moving an unlawfully parked vehicle into a prohibited area, and makes it unlawful for anyone to try to reserve a portion of a highway for their own exclusive stopping or parking use. 010, but the marked-bicycle-lane parking ban itself is written directly into this local section rather than left to state reference, so it applies regardless of any signage beyond the lane markings themselves.