Originally Posted by
irabidfish
The bad news here is that The Florida Department of Transportation has no concrete requirement placed on them, no concrete objectives or progress markers.
The good news is that they at least need to justify to the public why they have chosen not to place a bike path in an area. Those exceptions are common sense ones designed not to force the hand of the DoT to do something that would waste resources.
Florida Cyclists need to keep the DoT honest, and challenge them in court when they try to get away with making weak arguments against the placement of bike lanes.
No "concrete requirement placed on them, no concrete objectives or progress markers" but lots of more lawsuits. Yeah, that's an argument that will convince other places to adopt Complete Streets(TM).
And why do you say the law requires bike lanes or bike paths? The statute only appears to require bicycle "ways," whatever those are. To the extent striped lanes or paths are required, it appears to be only a matter of internal Florida DOT rules, which Florida DOT can change.