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Mobility & Curb Rules in North Carolina (2026)

32 rules on the books across North Carolina, 16 cities and counties. Select a rule to read the full details.

Severity: Few Restrictions · Light Restrictions · Some Restrictions · Significant Restrictions · Heavy Restrictions

Shared E-Scooter Rules

Permits for shared dockless e-scooter operators, sidewalk-riding bans, helmet and minimum-age rules, and how cities cap fleet size and equity zones.

Bike Lane Rules

Rules of the road in painted, buffered, and protected bike lanes, including which vehicles may enter, parking-protected designs, and the right-of-way at intersections.

Apex

Some Restrictions

Apex's traffic code bans stopping, standing, or parking in a marked bike lane on any public street, with a narrow…

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Asheville

Some Restrictions

Asheville City Code Sec. 19-6 opens every marked bicycle lane on city-controlled streets to bicycles, electric-assisted…

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Cary

Some Restrictions

The Town of Cary bans stopping, standing, or parking any vehicle in a street area clearly marked as a bicycle travel…

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Charlotte

Some Restrictions

Charlotte bars drivers from stopping, standing or parking on a designated bicycle path except for narrow, listed…

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Concord

Some Restrictions

Concord bars cyclists from sidewalks citywide except in residentially zoned areas or within 300 feet of a school or the…

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Durham

Some Restrictions

Durham makes it unlawful for a driver of a motorized vehicle to occupy a marked bike lane for moving or parking under…

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Fayetteville

Some Restrictions

When posted signs mark a bicycle lane, Fayetteville makes it unlawful to drive, stop, stand, or park a motor vehicle on…

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Gastonia

Some Restrictions

Gastonia requires cyclists to use an adjacent bike path instead of the roadway whenever one is provided, and limits…

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Greensboro

Some Restrictions

Greensboro reserves signed bicycle-street lanes on streets listed in traffic schedule no. 11 for bicycles and…

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High Point

Some Restrictions

High Point, North Carolina reserves any street the city has posted as a bicycle-street lane exclusively for…

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Moore County

Some Restrictions

In unincorporated Moore County parks, Sec. 10.5-12 bans riding a bicycle "without reasonable regard for the safety of…

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Raleigh

Some Restrictions

It is unlawful in Raleigh to drive, park, stop or stand a motor vehicle in a marked bike lane, with narrow exceptions…

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Wilmington

Some Restrictions

Wilmington's bicycle code, City Code § 5-36, requires cyclists on a roadway or bikeway to ride as near the right side…

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Winston-Salem

Some Restrictions

Winston-Salem cyclists on public roadways must ride as near the right-hand side as practicable and may not ride more…

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Golf Carts & Low-Speed Vehicles

Where golf carts and low-speed vehicles may legally use public streets, the speed-limit ceiling on roads they can cross or travel, and the equipment, licence, insurance and age rules that apply. Cart-community towns often permit street use the surrounding state law would not.