Yono v. Department of Transportation

This is a line-drawing case, both literally and figuratively. We are asked to decide whether a parallel-parking lane, designated exclusively as such by painted lines on the highway, is “designed for vehicular travel” within the meaning of the highway exception1 to the governmental tort liability act (GTLA).2 Guided by our precedent and by the admonition that we are to narrowly construe exceptions to governmental immunity,3 we conclude that it is not. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals, which held otherwise, and remand this case to the Court of Claims for entry of…