Tag: ballard

December 15, 2021

Ballard Missing Link opponents file appeal against city’s scaled-back trail plan

As expected, longtime opponents of the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail have filed a complaint in King County Superior Court (PDF) challenging SDOT’s claim that their redesigned trail project is exempt from the State Environmental Policy Act (“SEPA”), the primary legal tool opponents have used to delay the 1.4-mile trail for two decades.…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, missing link
November 1, 2021

Scaled back Missing Link plans could put the trail on budget and sidestep lawsuits

The Missing Link appellants have won! But not really. The Seattle Department of Transportation announced today that they are prepared to submit a significantly scaled-back version of their plans to complete the Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail through Ballard. The trail connection remains, but many of the extra elements included with it have been…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, missing link, sdot
April 20, 2021

The Ballard Locks crossing will reopen April 28

After more than a year closed due to the pandemic, the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks will reopen its walking path connecting Ballard to Magnolia April 28. Gates will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Because crossing the Ballard Bridge is such an awful experience on foot or bike, the walkways across the Locks…
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tagged: ballard, Ballard Locks, magnolia, us army corps of engineers
February 16, 2021

What’s the deal with BIRT? A conversation

Last fall, SDOT released a report on the future of transportation in the vicinity of Interbay and Ballard. The result, the Ballard-Interbay Regional Transportation System (BIRT) report, focused on the big topics of what to do about the Magnolia and Ballard bridges, both on a timeline to replacement, but it also looked at the projects…
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tagged: ballard, birt, interbay, magnolia, port of seattle, queen anne
August 4, 2020

Trail Alerts: Ship Canal Trail won’t be detoured to Nickerson + Burke detour near Fred Meyer

Some great news from Seattle Public Utilities: The Ship Canal Trail will not be detoured to Nickerson Street for the next couple years as was originally planned. As we reported previously, concerned neighbors including Queen Anne Greenways drew attention to a multi-year detour that would route the trail onto Nickerson Street, which has a paint-only…
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tagged: ballard, Bike Route Alert, burke-gilman trail, missing link, queen anne greenways, seattle public utilities, ship canal trail, ship canal water quality project
July 17, 2020

Technicality about updating railroad track delays Ballard Missing Link until 2022

Appellants fighting the city’s decades-long plan to finally complete the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail have successfully found another legal maneuver to further delay the needed safety project until 2022, the Seattle Times reports. A King County Court has decided (PDF) that Seattle cannot redesign the railroad tracks along Shilshole Ave NW and…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, missing link