Court case about unsafe conditions in bike lane

A Chicago man has filed a lawsuit over injuries he suffered as a result of a poorly designed bike lane. It sounds like this case might stand a chance despite the Boub precedent because it was a marked bike lane.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-bicyclist-fil...

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Permalink Reply by dan brown on July 31, 2012 at 10:18am

thanks for sharing caeron. this will be interesting to follow.

hopefully he will have better luck than Travis case where bicycles were an "allowed user" but not "intended user". thinking about that still turns my stomach

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-8 mi. on July 31, 2012 at 10:27am

Looks like he will win and we will end up with improved conditions to ride in. Sad that it take an injury to make it so.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel G on July 31, 2012 at 12:20pm

This is really great. A case highlighting the difference between minimum accommodation and reasonable accommodation. As in, bike facilities that a "reasonable person" would actually use. If the city leaves a manhole uncovered and a minivan takes a nosedive into it, breaking the noses of everyone inside, are they not entitled to sue the ever-loving shit out of the city? This could mean the beginning of minimum standards for lanes across the city. There are just too many lanes that are basically unusable, even by experienced riders, and I think everyone's a little tired of meaningless gestures in the public sphere.

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Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein (5.5 mi) on July 31, 2012 at 12:27pm

Is that the same case highlighted in this book?

dan brown said:

hopefully he will have better luck than Travis case where bicycles were an "allowed user" but not "intended user". thinking about that still turns my stomach