boy, bikes are on the front page of the Seattle PI again today!


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...dbridge29.html

Bicyclists say city ignores safety concerns
Riding with danger every day

By LEVI PULKKINEN AND SCOTT GUTIERREZ
P-I REPORTERS

On July 6, 2007, Terry McMacken became part of a statistic.

Bicycling across the Ballard Bridge in Seattle, McMacken rode into a low concrete wall designed – extraordinarily poorly designed, his lawyers say – to separate cyclists and pedestrians from the cars and trucks on 15th Avenue West. He was thrown into traffic and stuck by a car, receiving injuries that would later force surgeons to amputate his right arm and shoulder at the collarbone.