(1) Bicycle means a two-wheel nonmotor-powered vehicle.

(2) Bike path means a route for the exclusive use of bicycles separated by grade or other physical barrier from motor traffic.

(3) Bike lane means a street lane restricted to bicycles and so designated by means of painted lanes, pavement coloring or other appropriate markings. A peak hour bike lane means a bike lane effective only during times of heaviest auto commuter traffic.

(4) Bike route means a route in which bicycles share road space with motorized vehicles.

(5) Bikeway means bike paths, bike lanes and bike routes.

(6) Bicycle parking facility means any facility for the temporary storage of bicycles which allows the frame and both wheels of the bicycle to be locked so as to minimize the risk of theft and vandalism.

(7) Parking facility means a lot, garage, building, or portion thereof in or of which motor vehicles are temporarily parked.

(8) Parking space means the area allocated by a parking facility for the temporary storage of one automobile.

(9) MBTA means the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

(1) The physical design for bikeways, intersections involving bikeways, and means of bicycle link-ups with other modes of transportation;

(2) The location of bikeways, including ascertaining high accident or pollution areas and developing means of avoiding or ameliorating those situations as well as means of providing intersection safety generally;

(3) The location of bicycle parking facilities, including bus stops;

(4) The rules of the road for bicyclists, and to the extent that present rules must be modified because of bikeways, new rules of the road for motorists. Also the feasibility of mandatory adult bicycle registration to minimize theft and increase recovery of stolen bicycles;

(5) Bicycle safety education for bicyclists, motorists, children, students, street maintenance personnel and policemen, including requiring bicycle safety principles and safe street riding skills to be taught in high school automobile driver(s) education programs;

(6) Methods for publicizing bicycles or bicycles plus mass transit as alternatives to automobile transportation, including the preparation, perhaps in conjunction with bicentennial efforts, of a master Boston area transit map, indicating the kind, extent and location of bicycle facilities, public baths, showers, toilet facilities, water fountains, as well as routes and stops for MBTA, common carriers and private bus lines, such map to be distributed by the Registry of Motor Vehicles with each automobile new registration and automobile registration renewal;

(7) Requiring or providing incentives for common carriers and mass transit carriers, especially the Blue Line of the MBTA, to provide bicycle parking facilities at their respective terminals and stations and bicycle carrying facilities on their respective vehicles;

(8) The creation of roadway zones in which all vehicles, except mass transit, emergency and service vehicles, and bicycles, would be excluded;

(9) Requiring or providing incentives for office buildings and employers to install and to provide free shower and locker facilities for cyclists;

(10) A bicycle user and potential user survey, which shall at a minimum determine:

(11) The special problems related to the design and incorporation in the bikeway facilities described in paragraph (f) of this section of feeder bikeways to bridges, on-bridge bikeways, feeder bikeways to MBTA and railroad stations, feeder bikeways to fringe parking areas, and bicycle passage through rotaries and squares;

(12) The conversion of railroad beds, power lines, flood control channels or similar corridors to bikepaths;

(13) Removing barriers to employees bringing their bicycles into their offices;

(14) Removal or alteration of drain grates with bars so placed as to catch bicycle wheels;

(15) Bicycle rentals at appropriate locations; and

(16) The feasibility of constructing bikeways along at least each of the corridors set forth in paragraph (g) of this section.

In conducting the study, opportunity shall be given for public comments and suggestions. Input shall also be solicited from state, regional and local planning staffs, state, regional and local agencies, bicycle organizations and other interested groups and be related to comprehensive transportation planning for the area designated in paragraph (b) of this section. The study shall, using as a goal a minimum of 180 miles of bikeways, examine as large a network of facilities as is practicable within the area described in paragraph (b) of this section and shall recommend physical designs for said facilities. The study shall also propose a compliance schedule for establishing any recommended permanent bicycle facilities.

(1) Designation of the agency responsible for conducting the study;

(2) A date for initiation of the study, which date shall be no later than October 1, 1975; and

(3) A date for completion of the study, and submittal thereof to the Administrator, which date shall be no later than June 30, 1976.

(1) Central Square, Cambridge to Boston University;

(2) Harvard Square, Cambridge to Union Square, Allston;

(3) Union Square, Somerville to Central Square, Cambridge;

(4) Union Square, Allston to Government Center;

(5) Harvard Square, Cambridge to Government Center;

(6) Brookline Village to Government Center;

(7) Boston University to Longwood Avenue Hospital Zone;

(8) Egleston Square to Government Center;

(9) Columbus Park to Boston Common;

(10) L Street Beach to Government Center;

(11) Powder House Circle, Somerville to Harvard Square;

(12) Everett to Government Center;

(13) Porter Square, Cambridge to Columbus Park, Boston;

(14) Cleveland Circle to Government Center;

(15) Porter Square, Cambridge to Government Center;

(16) Harvard Square, Cambridge to Boston City Hospital; and

(17) Charlestown, Longfellow, Harvard, Boston University, River Street, Western Avenue, Anderson, Summer Street, and Broadway Bridges.

(1) All stations of the Riverside portion of the Green Line;

(2) Reasonably spaced stops on other portions of the Green Line;

(3) All stations of the Red, Orange, and Blue Lines; and shall have spaces for at least six bicycles per station, except for facilities at terminal stations which shall have spaces for at least 24 bicycles.