Tag: ballard

October 14, 2024

Saturday: Celebrate the opening of the 6th Ave NW neighborhood greenway with a community bike ride

Do you often find yourself reluctantly biking on busy 8th Ave NW and its incomplete and skinny door zone bike lanes? Well then, you have something to celebrate Saturday. SDOT will cut the ribbon on a new neighborhood greenway on 6th Avenue NW from Leary Way to the NW 58th Street neighborhood greenway Saturday (October…
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tagged: 6th ave nw, ballard, sdot
August 15, 2024

Let SDOT know the Market/Leary Burke-Gilman route needs to separate walking and biking near storefronts

It is a great idea to redesign Leary Way NW and NW Market Street so they are safer for everyone while also connecting the Burke-Gilman Trail through Ballard, but SDOT’s current design needs significant work in order to achieve those goals. SDOT has not released any new details about Councilmember Dan Strauss’ Market/Leary plan since…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, dan strauss, leary way, market st, missing link, sdot
July 10, 2024

In last-minute effort, Strauss successfully adds $20M for Burke-Gilman Trail via Leary/Market to the transportation levy proposal + The current design needs to get better

I was all set to write up a story about the uncertain future of the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail when, in a last-minute Hail Mary minutes before official adoption, Councilmember Dan Strauss reintroduced his previously-failed amendment to fund his trail connection plan via Leary Way and Market Street and found the votes…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, dan strauss, josh brower, leary way, market st, missing link, sdot
November 27, 2023

SDOT releases early design for Leary/Market bikeway, seeks feedback

The day before Thanksgiving, SDOT released a first look at their design concept for a Ballard Missing Link bike route alternative following 17th Ave NW, Leary Way and Market Street. The plan includes a 10-foot-wide “multi-use trail” on one side of the street as well as significant traffic calming and safety upgrades to Leary Way…
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tagged: 17th ave nw, ballard, leary way, market st, missing link, sdot
October 27, 2023

It’s happeningggggggg!!!!!!!!!

via SDOT Director Greg Spotts. For background on what’s happening here, see our previous story. UPDATE: I biked there so I could touch it myself to confirm it’s real. It is. However, I now see that this looks like a blurry Big Foot photo from a hunt for the mythical Missing Link. Oooh, there’s a…
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tagged: ballard, ballard terminal railroad, greg spotts, meeker southern railroad, missing link, sdot
October 25, 2023

Council approves deal to pave over the Missing Link tracks under the Ballard Bridge

Within hours after the City Council approved a deal with the railroad now formerly known as the Ballard Terminal Railroad Tuesday, SDOT crews had already marked out the area under the Ballard Bridge where they plan to pave over both the railroad tracks and gravel pits in order to create a safe bicycle pathway. Work…
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tagged: ballard, ballard terminal railroad, burke-gilman trail, dan strauss, meeker southern railroad, missing link, sdot