Tag: bob anderton

September 4, 2015

Toward Zero: Honoring the 150 people killed or badly injured in Seattle traffic since Sher Kung

A crowd gathered on the steps of the Garden of Remembrance downtown Friday listened to 150 bell rings, one for every person seriously injured or killed in Seattle traffic in just one year. They also heard ten names, all people who were killed in traffic in the same year. “We are honoring today — not…
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tagged: bob anderton, cascade bicycle club, cathy tuttle, move seattle, move seattle levy, seattle neighborhood greenways, sher kung, vision zero
May 30, 2012

Seattle Met: City attorneys successfully argue that biking is not ‘ordinary’ on Westlake Ave

The most recent issue of Seattle Met has a whole lot of bike stuff. But the centerpiece of their coverage is a feature on bike lawyer Bob Anderton’s lawsuit on behalf of a handful of people who crashed and were inured on the South Lake Union Streetcar tracks. We have written about the dangerous tracks…
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tagged: bob anderton, city attorney, lawsuits, Rebecca Boatright, seattle met, slut, streetcars, westlake
April 12, 2012

Judge throws out SLU streetcar crash lawsuit

A King County Superior Court judge has dismissed claims by a group of people seriously injured on the South Lake Union streetcar tracks after they were dangerously installed in the curb lane of the previously-popular bicycling route. They plan to appeal the decision, according to the Seattle Times: Judge Harry McCarthy last week agreed with…
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tagged: bob anderton, lawsuits, seattle times, south lake union, streetcars, westlake