Tag: 520 trail
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520 Bridge Trail will finally open December 20
Well, WSDOT has said all along that the 520 Bridge Trail will open in Fall 2017, and it technically will. The region’s most significant new biking and walking connection in decades will open December 20 at 3 p.m., 17 hours and 28 minutes before the winter solstice. As we’re written before, this bridge connection is…
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520 Bridge Trail on for autumn opening + WSDOT will not fix jarring expansion plates
A trail over the 520 Bridge will revolutionize biking in the region. Bicycle travel times between many parts of Seattle and major Eastside communities will be slashed. Biking from UW to downtown Kirkland, for example, will be cut in half. Instead of an hour and a half (including some serious hills), the 520 Bridge Trail will allow…
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520 Trail gets so close, yet so far
Medina just got an awesome new park. You can now walk or bike 1.3 miles from Evergreen Point out into the middle of Lake Washington on a floating bridge, bringing you tantalizingly within reach of Seattle. But for another year, the gloriously wide trail complete with scenic outlooks is just there for Eastside recreation. The…
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Ahead of public hearing, a couple ways to make the 520 Bridge plans better
In case you haven’t noticed, the state is building a new 520 Bridge. And as we noted back in February, the biking and walking elements of their Seattle-side plans have come a long way since the initial drafts. But there’s still a lot of work left to do. Since February, the state legislature passed a…
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Bellevue installs its first bike counters + First look at the data
The City of Bellevue and WSDOT have installed the city’s first ever electronic bike counters to track hour-by-hour usage of the I-90 and 520 Trails. As we’ve seen with Seattle’s counters (the oldest being the Fremont Bridge counter), having daily and hourly data gives a much more clear insight into actual bike use. Previously, the…
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