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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6302

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senators Bender, Thorsness, Murray and Talmadge

Read first time 1/10/90 and referred to Committee on  Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to edgestriping along certain roadways; adding a new section to chapter 47.36 RCW; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     It is the intent of the legislature to protect children and other pedestrians walking along roadways that do not have sidewalks.  A stripe at the edge of the roadway would provide a clear boundary between the traffic lane and shoulder of the roadway designated for pedestrian use.  It would be a significant aid to children and to older individuals with diminished visual capacity who often cannot judge where the road begins and the shoulder ends without a clear mark.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 47.36 RCW to read as follows:

          The department of transportation shall, by January 1, 1991, adopt uniform edgestriping standards for principal and minor arterials and collector streets that do not have curbs or sidewalks and are inside urbanized areas or in other areas deemed appropriate by the department.  Such arterial and collector streets shall be edgestriped in accordance with the standards by July 1, 1993.

          For the purposes of this section, "urbanized area" means an area designated as such by the United States bureau of census and having a population of more than fifty thousand.