Tag: alta planning + design

September 11, 2024

Seattle will pay $5.75M to two people who say streetcar tracks caused their bike crashes

Even after a series of widely-publicized crashes on the Jackson Street streetcar tracks years prior, the City of Seattle failed to make the street reasonably safe for people riding bikes. So after Janet Ball and Eric Boris crashed there in two separate incidents in 2019, they sued the city for negligence. The city settled the…
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tagged: alta planning + design, catherine fleming, eric boris, first hill streetcar, lawsuit, sdot
October 28, 2014

Pronto operator Alta Bicycle Share bought by New York company

Rumors have been swirling around for months now, but Alta Bicycle Share officially announced Tuesday that they have been bought by a New York-based investment group. Alta Bicycle Share operates many of the biggest bike share systems in the US including Pronto Cycle Share. The purchase comes amid challenges expanding and improving successful systems in…
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tagged: alta bicycle share, alta planning + design, bikeshare holdings llc, citibike, pronto emerald city cycle share