Tag: slut
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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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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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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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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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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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