Bike pathRomania
Traffic rules
Romania
1. Bike path
A bike path is a part of a road or a separate route intended primarily or exclusively for people riding bicycles. It may be physically separated from motor traffic, marked on the road surface or identified by traffic signs.
Bike paths may be one-way, two-way or shared with other road users. The permitted users, direction of travel, priority rules and obligation to use the path depend on local traffic signs and regulations.
What does Romania call a cycle path?
The official term is pistă pentru biciclete. It is a specially arranged, signed and marked subdivision of the carriageway, pavement or shoulder. Its location on a pavement does not make the rest of that pavement a cycling facility.
🔗 legislatie.just.ro • Romania, OUG 195/2002 — articles 6, 72; Regulation 160–161
🔗 legislatie.just.ro • Romania, HG1391/2006 implementing Regulation — articles 160–161
Must cyclists use a provided Romanian cycle path?
Yes, where a signed cycle path exists in your direction of travel, Romanian Regulation Article 160 requires bicycles and electric scooters to use it. Follow its direction and traffic controls. An ordinary unsigned pavement is not a substitute cycling facility, and a path serving the opposite direction is not automatically your required route.
🔗 legislatie.just.ro • Romania, OUG 195/2002 — articles 6, 72; Regulation 160–161
🔗 legislatie.just.ro • Romania, HG1391/2006 implementing Regulation — articles 160–161
Does a Romanian cycle path automatically permit mopeds?
No. The provision requiring path use expressly names bicycles and electric scooters. Do not infer permission for powered mopeds or motorcycles from a bicycle sign. They remain subject to their own vehicle-access rules.
🔗 legislatie.just.ro • Romania, OUG 195/2002 — articles 6, 72; Regulation 160–161
🔗 legislatie.just.ro • Romania, HG1391/2006 implementing Regulation — articles 160–161
Mandatory path for cyclists.
English • Cycle path. Where a signed cycle path exists in the direction of travel, cyclists and electric scooter riders must use it exclusively. Other road users are prohibited.
Română • Pistă pentru biciclete. Dacă pe direcția de deplasare există o pistă pentru biciclete, semnalizată ca atare, conducătorii bicicletelor și trotinetelor electrice sunt obligați să circule numai pe această pistă. Se interzice circulația altor participanți la trafic pe pista pentru biciclete.
Sources
🔗 Commons.wikimedia.org
🔗 Legislatie.just.ro • art. 160 alin. (2) • text cu trimiterea la alin. (1) explicitată
🔗 Commons.wikimedia.org
🔗 Legislatie.just.ro • HG nr. 1391/2006 • anexa nr. 2 • B3 • Monitorul Oficial nr. 876/2006, p. 40
SVG source: Gigillo83 • CC BY-SA 4.0 • Original revision 2015-05-26. Wikimedia original unmodified.
