Tag: ballard
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Big legal decision supports finishing the Burke-Gilman Missing Link
The Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail won a huge legal decision today, with the Seattle Hearing Examiner deciding that SDOT’s environmental study and findings was adequate. After completion of an enormous environmental impact study for the short stretch of missing trail, the legal path for trail opponents was already tough. This decision affirms…
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The community-advised Missing Link design keeps getting better for everyone
The Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail has been debated and challenged in court for two decades, and sometimes it’s hard in such a long, frustrating process to remember what this thing is really about. On average, about two people crash badly enough every month along the Missing Link that they need emergency medical…
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Missing Link community design reaches major milestone + Public workshop Thursday
The design for the Ballard Missing Link continues to move forward, reaching a major milestone that puts it on track for construction starting in winter 2018. You can check out the latest design details and weigh in at a design workshop 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Ballard Eagleson VFW. Of course, the design…
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Missing Link open house Thursday will dive into the gritty trail design details
The Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link team has been working hard in recent months to gather very granular comments about the planned trail route to address safety and business access concerns section-by-section. SDOT staff held a series of workshops on specific trail sections in recent weeks, and now they are hosting a big open house to discuss…
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Terrible person shoots Ballard safe streets advocate with pellet gun
Some terrible person shot Haley Keller with a pellet gun Monday night while she and her husband Dave were biking home from watching the sunset at Golden Gardens. Keller, a Connect Ballard advocate, Board Member of Cascade Bicycle Club and Washington Bikes, and co-founder of Pedder Brewing, said the pellet hit her in the thigh,…
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Despite compromise and ongoing community design work, group appeals the Ballard Missing Link
The Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail is headed back into litigation. But despite the pending legal action, the city is still working through the community design process that was was part of the February compromise agreement between SDOT, trail supporters and a group of longtime trail opponents. The city is hosting three drop-in…
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