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
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 RestrictionsApex's traffic code bans stopping, standing, or parking in a marked bike lane on any public street, with a narrow…
Read full rule →Asheville
Some RestrictionsAsheville City Code Sec. 19-6 opens every marked bicycle lane on city-controlled streets to bicycles, electric-assisted…
Read full rule →Cary
Some RestrictionsThe Town of Cary bans stopping, standing, or parking any vehicle in a street area clearly marked as a bicycle travel…
Read full rule →Charlotte
Some RestrictionsCharlotte bars drivers from stopping, standing or parking on a designated bicycle path except for narrow, listed…
Read full rule →Concord
Some RestrictionsConcord bars cyclists from sidewalks citywide except in residentially zoned areas or within 300 feet of a school or the…
Read full rule →Durham
Some RestrictionsDurham makes it unlawful for a driver of a motorized vehicle to occupy a marked bike lane for moving or parking under…
Read full rule →Fayetteville
Some RestrictionsWhen posted signs mark a bicycle lane, Fayetteville makes it unlawful to drive, stop, stand, or park a motor vehicle on…
Read full rule →Gastonia
Some RestrictionsGastonia requires cyclists to use an adjacent bike path instead of the roadway whenever one is provided, and limits…
Read full rule →Greensboro
Some RestrictionsGreensboro reserves signed bicycle-street lanes on streets listed in traffic schedule no. 11 for bicycles and…
Read full rule →High Point
Some RestrictionsHigh Point, North Carolina reserves any street the city has posted as a bicycle-street lane exclusively for…
Read full rule →Moore County
Some RestrictionsIn unincorporated Moore County parks, Sec. 10.5-12 bans riding a bicycle "without reasonable regard for the safety of…
Read full rule →Raleigh
Some RestrictionsIt is unlawful in Raleigh to drive, park, stop or stand a motor vehicle in a marked bike lane, with narrow exceptions…
Read full rule →Wilmington
Some RestrictionsWilmington's bicycle code, City Code § 5-36, requires cyclists on a roadway or bikeway to ride as near the right side…
Read full rule →Winston-Salem
Some RestrictionsWinston-Salem cyclists on public roadways must ride as near the right-hand side as practicable and may not ride more…
Read full rule →E-Bike Classes
CVC §312.5 Class 1/2/3 e-bike definitions, age and helmet rules per class, and where Class 3 e-bikes may use bike lanes vs streets.
Charlotte
Some RestrictionsCharlotte's traffic code caps electric assisted bicycles at a 750-watt motor and 20 mph motor-only speed, and electric…
Read full rule →Greensboro
Some RestrictionsGreensboro doesn't run a Class 1/2/3 e-bike scheme; it defines an "electric assisted bicycle" as a bike with a motor of…
Read full rule →Catawba County
Light RestrictionsCatawba County park rules define e-bikes as Class 1 electric bicycles that stop assisting the rider at 20 m.p.h., and…
Read full rule →Durham
Light RestrictionsDurham treats electric assisted bicycles and electric scooters as vehicles under City Code § 66-308, meaning riders…
Read full rule →Red-Light Cameras
History and current status of LA's automated red-light camera program (sunset 2011), and current photo-enforcement at school-bus arms and bus-only lanes.
Cary
Some RestrictionsTown of Cary's charter authorizes traffic control photographic systems (red light cameras) to civilly enforce red-light…
Read full rule →Fayetteville
Some RestrictionsFayetteville's traffic control photographic systems, its red-light cameras, impose a $100 civil penalty on the…
Read full rule →Greensboro
Some RestrictionsGreensboro runs an automated red-light camera program under §16-58, authorized by G.S. §160A-300.1. Cameras at listed…
Read full rule →Harnett County
Some RestrictionsHarnett County has no red-light or school-zone speed camera program; its only automated traffic camera targets drivers…
Read full rule →High Point
Some RestrictionsHigh Point City Code § 10-1-306 authorizes a traffic control photographic system, under which camera images serve as…
Read full rule →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.