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Linda had an encounter of a very close kind with railroad tracks this summer and they were only oblique. This picture shows tracks running parallel to the road bed. Well, that makes sense because they are trolley tracks. But this state uses the Far Right rule for cyclists meaning Seattle cyclists are required by law to ride to the right just where the city has recently installed new trolley tracks.

A downtown correspondent filed these pictures from the Taming the S.L.U.T. bicycle protest in Seattle earlier Wednesday evening.

Up to 100 An esimated 40 to 60 bicyclists showed up for the ride, with plenty of police on hand. The bicyclists say the city hasn’t done enough, in fact has done very little, to ensure that the tracks for the new South Lake Union Trolley (SLUT) are safe for cyclists.

The tracks for the SLUT, which began operation earlier Wednesday, run along the curb lanes where bicyclists are supposed to ride under city regulation (as far right as possible). The gaps in the track catch bicycle tires, causing cyclists to fall to the g

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