Tag: ballard neighborhood greenways

April 13, 2016

The network effect: For the 1st time, 2 neighborhood greenways in Seattle have crossed

Ballard’s new 17th Ave NW neighborhood greenway officially marks an important step in the city’s all ages and abilities bike network: Two neighborhood greenways have finally crossed each other. It’s hard to believe it took until 2016, but at least in Ballard neighborhood greenways are starting to form a functional network. The new 17th Ave…
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June 9, 2015

For first time, two neighborhood greenways will connect later this year

The city has built stretches of neighborhood greenways in Ballard, Northeast Seattle, the Central District, Delridge, Beacon Hill, Wallingford, Olympic Hills, the University District and Greenwood, but they are all sort of floating in space with limited usability because they lack connections. While one strategy for creating a quality neighborhood greenway network would be to…
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March 21, 2014

Tuesday open house will kick off plans for second Ballard neighborhood greenway

The city will host its first open house to get community input on a second neighborhood greenway in Ballard, this time a north-south route. The meeting is 6 – 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ballard High School Commons Room. The presentation starts at 6:30. The city is considering a route somewhere in the 16th, 17th…
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January 8, 2014

FamilyRide: Kidical Mass swings by the under-construction Missing Link, Ballard Greenway bike counter

Sunday’s Kidical Mass ride took us to Ballard for our first look at the new two-way bikeway for part of the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link. The paint isn’t down yet and I hope they’ll put more dividers in to make things clearer, but most of the signs are up. We only took it in the…
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September 2, 2013

Ballard’s 58th Street Greenway will open Saturday with Kidical Mass, street pianos and more

Ballard’s first neighborhood greenway is ready to roll on NW 58th Street. Spanning the entire width of Ballard from 6th Avenue NW to the Burke-Gilman Trail, the greenway includes a variety of improvements from safer crossings of busy streets to speed humps for slowing car traffic to stop signs for cross-traffic at intersections with other…
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September 6, 2012

City delays Ballard Neighborhood Greenway on NW 58th Street

Well, so much for 2012 being the year of the neighborhood greenways in Seattle. One of the city’s strongest proposals for installation this year just got pushed back for more studies, meaning the city will fall well shy of its stated goal of seven miles of neighborhood greenways by the end of the year (11…
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