diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index af4b306dc1c..fd87301e682 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
       - CHANGED: Upgrade Cucumber-js to v12 [#7221](https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/pull/7221)
       - CHANGED: Add libcap-setcap to alpine dockerfile [#7241](https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/issues/7241)
       - FIXED: Minor misspellings found in source code, comments and documents [#7215](https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/pull/7215)
-    - Profile:
+    - Profiles:
+      - FIXED: Bicycle and foot profiles now don't route on motor roads [#6697](https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/pull/6697)
       - FIXED: Use `cycleway:both` if available. [#6179](https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/issues/6179)
       - FIXED: Correctly limit exclude classes to 7. [#7322](https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/pull/7322)
 
diff --git a/features/bicycle/way.feature b/features/bicycle/way.feature
index b9beb5f0f58..f2a371bc265 100644
--- a/features/bicycle/way.feature
+++ b/features/bicycle/way.feature
@@ -40,3 +40,9 @@ Feature: Bike - Accessability of different way types
             | highway | man_made | bothw |
             | (nil)   | (nil)    |       |
             | (nil)   | pier     | x     |
+
+    Scenario: Bike - Motorroad
+        Then routability should be
+            | highway   | motorroad  | bothw |
+            | primary   | (nil)      | x     |
+            | primary   | yes        |       |
diff --git a/features/foot/way.feature b/features/foot/way.feature
index 6916adece43..44dc3136a2c 100644
--- a/features/foot/way.feature
+++ b/features/foot/way.feature
@@ -42,3 +42,9 @@ Feature: Foot - Accessability of different way types
             | footway  |       |          | x    |
             | proposed |       |          |      |
             | proposed | yes   | yes      |      |
+
+    Scenario: Foot - Motorroad
+        Then routability should be
+            | highway | motorroad  | forw |
+            | primary | (nil)      | x    |
+            | primary | yes        |      |
diff --git a/profiles/bicycle.lua b/profiles/bicycle.lua
index b516336f9bc..c5e883f715c 100644
--- a/profiles/bicycle.lua
+++ b/profiles/bicycle.lua
@@ -221,7 +221,8 @@ function setup()
     avoid = Set {
       'impassable',
       'construction',
-      'proposed'
+      'proposed',
+      'motorroad'
     }
   }
 end
diff --git a/profiles/foot.lua b/profiles/foot.lua
index b0a97127210..3f2cc61b53d 100644
--- a/profiles/foot.lua
+++ b/profiles/foot.lua
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ function setup()
 
     avoid = Set {
       'impassable',
-      'proposed'
+      'proposed',
+      'motorroad'
     },
 
     speeds = Sequence {
diff --git a/profiles/lib/way_handlers.lua b/profiles/lib/way_handlers.lua
index b1341023509..d6c93116565 100644
--- a/profiles/lib/way_handlers.lua
+++ b/profiles/lib/way_handlers.lua
@@ -634,6 +634,11 @@ function WayHandlers.blocked_ways(profile,way,result,data)
     return false
   end
 
+  -- motorroad
+  if profile.avoid.motorroad and way:get_value_by_key("motorroad") == "yes" then
+    return false
+  end
+
   -- In addition to the highway=construction tag above handle the construction=* tag
   -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:construction
   -- https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/construction#values