Tag: slut

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
November 4, 2010

SDOT releases alternate bike route map for Mercer East construction

For those unfamiliar with this confusing area, which has been made even more confusing by all the construction, here is a map of recommended bike routes from SDOT.
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tagged: mercer mess, slut
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
July 14, 2010

Why we need to be cautious when installing new trolley tracks

I was poking around on Bike Wise and noticed that the reported crashes seem to line the South Lake Union Streetcar tracks with blue bubbles indicating a “solo” collision. They are mostly people’s wheels getting stuck in the tracks and throwing them.
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tagged: bikewise, broadway, cycle tracks, first hill, jackson, slut, streetcars, westlake
June 29, 2010

Trolley track guides on 7th better, but look crazy at first

In addition to the new buffered bike lanes on one strip of 7th downtown — which, while short, are totally awesome — there is now some new paint to help guide bikers across the dangerous streetcar tracks from the SLUT at Westlake. These tracks are the subject of a lawsuit brought by a group of…
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tagged: slut, streercars