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

Section 145-54 of the Township Code establishes pedalcycle lanes and paths as part of specific streets and highways listed in Schedule XXIV, codified at Section 145-124. Once a street segment appears on the schedule, the section requires pedalcycle riders to use the designated lane or path along that segment and bars them from using any other part of the highway there, and it does so by cross-referencing Chapter 35, Subchapter A of Pennsylvania's Vehicle Code rather than setting its own separate riding rules. Section 145-124 restates the same rule, that pedalcycle paths are established as part of the streets described in the schedule in accordance with Section 145-54, and then lists the affected highways one by one with their limits.

The schedule covers dozens of short residential segments across the Township rather than a townshipwide network; Airdale Road from Orchard Road to Wyndon Avenue, Argyle Road from Church Road to Sussex Road, and Bala Avenue from Cynwyd Road to Parsons Avenue are examples of the specific, narrow stretches the Board of Commissioners has designated. Streets not listed in Schedule XXIV are not subject to this mandatory-path rule, so a cyclist on an undesignated street rides under the state Vehicle Code's rules of the road rather than under Section 145-54's lane requirement.

Because the section borrows its riding rules from the state Vehicle Code, obstructing or blocking one of these designated paths with a parked vehicle or other object would instead be addressed under the chapter's parking and obstruction provisions rather than under Section 145-54 itself.