Mobility & Curb Rules in Texas (2026)

Amarillo prohibits any shared mobility service, meaning dockless GPS-equipped scooters, e-bikes, or bicycles offered…

Grand Prairie bans riding or operating any neighborhood electric vehicle or motor-assisted scooter on its public…

New Braunfels bans shared, GPS-tracked scooters, e-bikes and bicycles from every public sidewalk and right-of-way in…

Abilene Code of Ordinances Ch. 23 requires any dockless or docked scooter or bicycle sharing vendor to hold a City…

Shared micromobility companies cannot deploy dockless scooters in Austin's right-of-way without a City license. New…

Georgetown has no dockless scooter-share franchise program, but Section 10.04.045 bans operating any motor assisted…

Houston never authorized a dockless scooter-share program, and in November 2025 it tightened the screws: operating or…

Plano's Code of Ordinances regulates every motor-assisted scooter, including the electric and gas-powered stand-up…

San Antonio requires any dockless scooter or e-bike company to register and hold a city permit agreement before…

Waco requires shared mobility devices like rental scooters to be parked against the curb, in a support rack, or against…

Dallas suspended its dockless shared e-scooter program in September 2020 after sidewalk safety, clutter, and injury…

El Paso has piloted dockless shared electric scooter and bike programs through permitted operators, with rules on rider…

Garland treats an abandoned rental bicycle or motorized scooter as a code violation, not just a nuisance. Code of…

Riding a motor-assisted scooter, whether it's your own or a rental, on a Richardson street or highway requires a…

Sugar Land bans scooters and neighborhood electric vehicles from public sidewalks under Code § 5-113(b), and only…

Arlington has not authorized large-scale dockless e-scooter operations. Limited shared-mobility deployments require…

Shared e-scooter operations in Corpus Christi require a city operating agreement with parking, speed, and helmet rules…

Frisco does not currently authorize a shared electric scooter or bike-share fleet on public right-of-way; private…

Lubbock has periodically hosted shared electric scooter pilots near Texas Tech, with vendors operating under city…

Shared dockless scooters operate primarily inside San Antonio city limits, not unincorporated Bexar County. The City of…

Shared electric scooters operate under City of Austin and other municipal permits, not Travis County. Unincorporated…

Where Amarillo has built a bicycle lane, cyclists must ride in it rather than the roadway, with narrow exceptions for…

Austin Code Chapter 12-1 and Texas Transportation Code combine to require motorists to give cyclists at least three…

Bicycles in Brazoria County parks must stay on improved roads or paths built for them, keep to the right side in single…

Dallas treats bicycles as vehicles under Chapter 28 traffic rules and is building out the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan with…

Denton's vulnerable road user ordinance tells cyclists where to ride on the roadway and requires drivers to give bikes…

El Paso bicyclists must use a dedicated bike path or lane instead of the adjacent street whenever the city has built…

Georgetown does not codify separate bike-lane markings, but Section 10.04.040 makes it unlawful to ride a bicycle…

Killeen's code has no separate bike-lane provision; cyclists follow the same rights and duties as vehicle drivers under…

Laredo requires cyclists to use an adjacent bicycle path instead of the roadway wherever the city has built one, and…

Lewisville forbids parking any vehicle so that part of it extends into a bike lane, over a sidewalk, across a…

New Braunfels requires cyclists moving slower than traffic to ride as far right as safely possible under Code of…

Plano maintains over seventy miles of off-street trails plus on-street bike lanes prioritized by the Bicycle…

Richardson bans driving a motor vehicle inside a street lane marked by sign and pavement striping for the exclusive use…

San Angelo lets the city manager establish painted or marked bicycle lanes once council adopts a bicycle plan, and bars…

Arlington maintains a growing bike-lane network with on-street striped lanes and shared-use trails connecting UTA, the…

Bexar County follows Texas Transportation Code rules for bicycles on roadways. Cyclists ride with traffic, use lights…

Designated bike lanes along Ocean Drive, Shoreline Boulevard, and Park Road 22 to Padre Island National Seashore carry…

Fort Worth treats bicycles as vehicles under Chapter 22 traffic rules and Texas Transportation Code Chapter 551. The…

Frisco operates an expanding network of on-street bike lanes and off-street hike-and-bike trails per the Comprehensive…

Garland has no ordinance addressing striped bike lanes specifically; instead §26.40 bars riding a bicycle on sidewalks…

Houston Bike Plan 2017 establishes a 1,800-mile bikeway network. Chapter 45 traffic rules govern bicycle operation and…

San Antonio's Bike Plan and SAMC Chapter 19 govern bicycle operation on city streets, requiring motorists to provide…

Taylor requires cyclists on a roadway to ride as near the right side as practicable, using due care when passing a…

Texarkana requires a bell or horn on every bicycle and bans bike riding on Central Business District sidewalks.

Dallas County does not operate a countywide bicycle network. Bike lanes are designed and maintained by individual…

Lubbock maintains designated on-street bike lanes plus the Marsha Sharp Freeway shared-use path, with bicycles allowed…

Travis County Transportation and Natural Resources stripes bike lanes on county arterials including Cameron Road, FM…

Uber, Lyft and other transportation network companies operating at San Antonio's airports must use the TNC's own app…

Rideshare drivers picking up or dropping off at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport pay a $1.00 per-trip ground…

Uber and Lyft drivers picking up riders at Corpus Christi International Airport must use designated transportation…

Dallas rideshare and TNC drivers can't stage or wait at the Love Field terminal curb. City Code Chapter 47A requires…

El Paso's Chapter 12.48 lets the traffic engineer designate curbside rideshare zones where TNC and taxi drivers can…

Rideshare and other for-hire vehicles picking up or dropping off in Fort Worth must use marked passenger loading zones…

Houston requires Uber and Lyft drivers picking up airport passengers to wait in a designated TNC waiting area and load…

New Braunfels bars taxicab, pedicab and transportation network company (TNC) drivers from loading or unloading…

Austin doesn't zone dedicated ride-hail pickup spots citywide; instead Sec. 4-17-12 lets the Transportation Department…

Amarillo does not sort electric bicycles into Texas's Class 1-3 tiers in its own code; instead it regulates…

Austin doesn't sort e-bikes into state Class 1/2/3 tiers; Chapter 12-2 instead lets any bicycle or micro-mobility…

Georgetown Section 10.04.045 defines an electric bicycle as one that cannot exceed 20 mph or 100 pounds, and lets…

In Laredo, e-bikes fall under the city's older "motor-assisted bicycle" category rather than the state's newer Class 1…

Parker's bicycle chapter folds electric-assisted bicycles and electric motor foot scooters into the same BICYCLE…

San Antonio's Sec. 19-660 splits micromobility devices into three legal classes: electric bicycles capped at 20 mph and…

Travis County classifies e-bikes by motor behavior, not just speed: Class 1 and 2 top out pedal- or throttle-assist at…

Waco does not sort e-bikes into DMV-style Class 1/2/3 tiers; instead Chapter 25 defines an "electric bicycle" as any…

Dallas does not sort electric bicycles into Class 1, 2, or 3 riding zones. City Code Sec. 9-1 treats every electric…

Pearland does not set its own class-based electric bicycle tiers; Sec. 29-10 sends roadway riding straight to state law…

Texas Transportation Code Sec. 707.020 bars every city in the state, Richardson included, from implementing or…

Frisco's code still contains a full automated red light camera enforcement scheme at Chapter 90, Article VII, adopted…

Abilene cannot operate red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020 bars every local authority from…

Allen operates no red-light cameras. Texas law forbids every local authority from running a photographic traffic signal…

Amarillo cannot run red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code 707.020, enacted by House Bill 1631 in 2019, prohibits…

Texas banned municipal red light cameras through HB 1631 in 2019, ending Arlington photo-enforcement programs. Existing…

Conroe cannot run red-light cameras. Texas outlawed photographic traffic-signal enforcement statewide in 2019…

Corpus Christi cannot use red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020 bars any local authority from…

Dallas cannot operate red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020 bars any local authority, including…

Denton cannot operate red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020, added by House Bill 1631 in 2019…

DeSoto operates no red-light cameras. Texas outlawed photographic traffic-signal enforcement statewide in 2019, so the…

Edinburg cannot operate red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code 707.020, enacted by House Bill 1631 effective June…

Red-light camera enforcement is illegal in El Paso. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020 bars every local…

Garland cannot operate red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code 707.020 bans photographic traffic signal…

Red-light cameras are illegal in Irving. Texas Transportation Code 707.020 bars every local authority from implementing…

Katy operates no red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020 forbids every local authority, home-rule…

Killeen cannot run red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code 707.020 bars every local authority from operating a…

Lubbock cannot operate red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020 bans photographic traffic signal…

McAllen operates no red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code 707.020 prohibits any local authority from…

McKinney cannot operate red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code 707.020, added by HB 1631 and effective June 2…

Mesquite cannot operate red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020, enacted by HB 1631 and effective…

Mission runs no red-light cameras. Texas outlawed photographic traffic-signal enforcement statewide on June 2, 2019, so…

Odessa cannot run red-light cameras. Texas outlawed photographic traffic signal enforcement statewide in 2019…

Pearland cannot run red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020, enacted by House Bill 1631 in 2019…

Red-light cameras are illegal in Pflugerville. Texas Transportation Code 707.020, added by HB 1631 and effective June…

Pharr cannot run red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code 707.020 bars every local authority from operating a…

Plano cannot operate red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020, added by HB 1631 effective June 2…

Round Rock operates no red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code 707.020 bars every local authority from installing…

Red-light cameras are illegal in The Woodlands. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020 bars every local authority…

Waco operates no red-light cameras. Texas outlawed photographic traffic signal enforcement statewide in 2019, so no…

Wichita Falls cannot operate red-light cameras. Texas Transportation Code Section 707.020, enacted by House Bill 1631…

Texas lets golf carts onto public roads in four defined situations rather than by general permission: inside a platted…