Guerrilla Bike Lane Appears In Spokane

SPOKANE — Call him the bike route rapscallion. On Sunday evening, an unknown man painted a bike lane on Riverside Avenue near Spokane Fire Station No. 4, recreating a bike route recently taken out by the city. The miscreant traffic engineer sprayed the lane down with light metallic paint around 6:30 p.m., according to one witness.

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