Brief by Bicycle Safety group responds to lawsuit seeking to roll back city installation of bike lanes
A lawsuit against the city over bike lane installations that cost parking spaces is based on flawed reasoning, and more bicyclists will be hurt or die if a judge grants an injunction to stop more lanes from being added and remove existing ones, according to a brief filed Wednesday by the Cambridge Bicycle Safety group.
Group files lawsuit over Cycling Safety Ordinance, telling city to ‘rescind, restore and prevent’ lanes (updated)
An email from the group described a situation in which “storefronts can’t serve customers because there is nowhere to park, where quiet side street neighborhoods will become de facto parking areas and loading docks and where medical patients won’t be able to access the offices of their providers.”
Driver of SUV is acquitted in death of a senior, ‘tragedy’ that left judge with reasonable doubt
Ashley Monturio was acquitted Tuesday of leaving the scene after running over and killing an 80-year-old woman in the parking lot of a Cambridgeport public housing project. Cambridge District Court Judge David Frank said the prosecution hadn’t proven conclusively that Monturio knew she had hit Romelia Gallardo.
In two deaths of pedestrians by large vehicles, State Police reports found the victims at fault
In two fatal accidents a month apart in which drivers ran over pedestrians in Cambridge, State Police investigators found the victims, not the drivers, responsible. The most recent conclusion came in the case of a woman who hit an 80-year-old using a walker in the parking lot of a public housing development.
Disclosure of Covid contact delays Monturio trial after a review of video showing resident’s death
About two and a half hours into the second day of trial, an attorney’s assistant reported that she had been in close contact with someone testing positive for coronavirus, putting on hold until April 19 the misdemeanor trial of Ashley Monturio for allegedly leaving the scene after she ran over Romelia Gallardo, a public housing resident.