California Streets and Highways Code 162 – (a) Unless the commission finds that it would be impractical, …
(a) Unless the commission finds that it would be impractical, any state highway exclusive and preferential lane for buses and other high occupancy vehicles constructed on new alignment or new structures shall be designed and constructed on horizontal and vertical alignments, including the grade, curvature, and horizontal and vertical clearances, so that the lane may readily be reconstructed as an exclusive public mass transit guideway, using the department‘s rail transit design criteria.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), prior to designing a state highway in conformance with this section, the department shall consider all of the following:
Terms Used In California Streets and Highways Code 162
- commission: means the California Transportation Commission. See California Streets and Highways Code 22
- Department: means the Department of Transportation of this state. See California Streets and Highways Code 20
- highway: includes bridges, culverts, curbs, drains, and all works incidental to highway construction, improvement, and maintenance. See California Streets and Highways Code 23
- State highway: means any highway which is acquired, laid out, constructed, improved or maintained as a State highway pursuant to constitutional or legislative authorization. See California Streets and Highways Code 24
(1) Cost effectiveness.
(2) Any added environmental impact.
(3) The likelihood of a guideway project ever being developed.
(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 681, Sec. 50.)