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==Cycle Routes==
Santa Cruz County has an excellent network of established and developing bicycle infrastructure. The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission [http://www.sccrtc.org (SCCRTC)] publishes a (paper and online) [http://www.sccrtc.org/services/bike County Bike Map] (CBM) displaying these bicycle lanes, paths and alternate routes, the latest [https://sccrtc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/StoryMapBasic/index.html?appid=dc90c3b75f3b4bd191277f7099cca3ff&extent=-122.2023,36.8662,-121.7773,37.0681 online version] in 2020. Also, SCCGIS [http://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/default.aspx?tabid=93 publishes] (click "Data" then "Transportation") a transportation layer that includes the County's electronically published bicycle infrastructure. JOSM can be persuaded (with the opendata plugin) to open the shapefile data's .shp entry point resulting from (optionally) unzipping this file. While every single way in the CBM denoted with colors has had tags applied in OSM (green bicycle path = {{tag|highway|cycleway}} or {{tag|cycleway|track}}, red bicycle lane = {{tag|cycleway|lane}}, purple bicycle alternate = {{tag|bicycle|yes}}) — OSM bicycle ''infrastructure'' tagging — and these have been collected into {{tag|route|bicycle}} relations tagged with {{tag|network|lcn}} — OSM bicycle ''route'' tagging — there are also ways in the County which (according to signage or roadway paint in the real world) also have these tags, but are not (usually) collected into {{tag|route|bicycle}} relations, as they are not so denoted in the CBM. Somewhat unusually, several of these ways ''are'' included in OSM as CycleNet "Z" routes, see below.
In 2010, a proposal was made to SCCRTC to superimpose upon the CBM's local-government-published infrastructure a local cycleway network ({{key|network|lcn}}) numbering protocol, colloquially known as '''CycleNet''' (or "CycleNetSZ" in a statewide Caltrans context). The routes and their numbering largely have a one-to-one correspondence with the physical bicycle infrastructure published in the CBM, ideally, the bicycle infrastructure resulting from downloading SCCGIS' latest bicycle shapefile data noted above. [https://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37&layers=C&lon=-122&zoom=12 CycleNet] is simply a set of logical routes proposed as a local network numbering protocol superimposed on the CBM-published physical infrastructure. In introductory stages as it is brought before jurisdictions for discussion and approval, two initial routes (Walnut-Soquel, which might become lcn or rcn 8, and Freedom Blvd., which might become lcn or rcn 80) were introduced into OSM as proposed {{key|network|rcn}} bicycle route relations. Additionally, other {{key|network|lcn}} route relations (with {{key|state|proposed}}) have also been introduced, with {{key|network|lcn}} and {{key|route|mtb}} (the latter only for mountain bike routes suffixed with "M" in their {{key|ref|}} tag). Thus, OSM is a venue for geographic communication/visualization of lcn/rcn/mtb bicycle route discussions and public introductions into a numbered local network. A set of tags to render mountain bike routes as both orange lines (in Cycle Map / OpenCycleMap layer) shown from {{key|route|mtb}}, as well as giving them dark blue numbers in the (shared with {{key|network|lcn}}) local address space have been determined, thanks to research via renderers OpenCycleMap (OCM) and Waymarked Trails' (WMT) [http://cycling.lonvia.de Cycling] and [http://mtb.lonvia.de MTB] layers. As local jurisdictions approve these now-proposed routes, {{key|state|proposed}} shall be removed to denote any newly local/legally-sanctioned numbering. Signage on these routes may follow their state going from proposed to approved, so cyclists should not expect route (number) signs on these until jurisdictions approve them. However, believed to be part of Santa Cruz' "Wayfinding" initiative, bicycle-oriented MUTCD D1-3a / D1-3c signage (named destinations, distances in miles, turn direction arrows), without CycleNet or any other numbering protocol route numbers, began to appear in 2019 around Santa Cruz (City and County).
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