Tag: ballard
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Check out the ten miles of car-free Summer Parkways in the Central District and Ballard
Seattle is stepping up its open streets game in 2015, remaking the old Summer Streets program into the bigger and more active Summer Parkways. Basically, the events will smash together Summer Streets (neighborhood street fairs) with the car-free family fun of the city’s long-running Bicycle Sunday events on Lake Washington Boulevard. Bike, scooter, stroll, skateboard…
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18 Missing Link victims will go to the hospital by the time the trail study is complete
Hours before a public meeting Thursday to discuss the missing 1.4 miles of the Burke-Gilman Trail in Ballard, an ambulance pulled away from NW 45th Street under the Ballard Bridge to take another injured person to the hospital. By the time the environmental study is complete, eighteen people will crash so badly while biking through…
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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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Finally, movement on court-required Missing Link study + 98.6% voice support for trail
After somehow spending a year and a half to “finish analyzing the feedback from the EIS scoping process held in late 2013,” the city is holding an open house to present the plan to develop a study of options to finally complete the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail. The draft of that study…
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Celebrate the end of Bike Month at Peddler Brewing Friday & Saturday
Bike Month is almost over! Well, actually, Bike Month never ends in Seattle. But if it’s an excuse to drink bike-loving beer, then I’m bike-loving there! Peddler Brewing in Ballard will host two days of bike party, kicking off with a happy hour Friday and an all-day Pedal Heroes party Saturday. You can also dress…
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Here’s how to make the Ballard Bridge safer now without spending a fortune
The Ballard Bridge is awful for biking and walking. That’s been well documented. And the solutions studied to retrofit the bridge to make it better for biking and walking carried one hell of a price tag, perhaps somewhere in the $20–$40 million range. That price means that even if the city finds the cash, those…
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