Tag: lawsuit

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
August 8, 2023

10 more people file claims against city over Ballard Missing Link injuries

Despite reaching a settlement with a group of eight people who sued the City of Seattle in 2022 after they crashed and were injured while biking through the Ballard Missing Link, the city still has not made the treacherous railroad crossing under the Ballard Bridge “reasonably safe for ordinary travel,” according to a new set…
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tagged: ballard bridge, burke-gilman trail, lawsuit, missing link, nw 45th st, sdot, washington bike law
July 16, 2010

Savage Road Rash: Sharing the road with streetcar tracks

Dan Savage wrote yesterday on SLOG that cyclists should learn to ride with the streetcar tracks like they do in San Francisco:
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tagged: crashes, dan savage, lawsuit, san francisco, slut, streetcars, westlake