An unmarked street curb has cost Des Moines taxpayers nearly $1.7 million after cyclists involved in bike crashes there sued the city over their injuries.
The city has settled two such cases, and now faces a third.
Des Moines installed the curb in March 2017at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Southwest 16th Street. It was part of anintersection redesignto direct pedestrians to a brick crosswalk across the roadjust south of downtown.
In several lawsuits filed against the city, cyclists claimed they were injured after striking the unmarked curb while riding east on the trail that runs adjacent to MLK Jr. Parkway.