Tag: beacon hill

October 12, 2015

Cheasty Trails and Bike Park finally secures its $100,000 grant

The folks behind the Cheasty Trails and Bike Park project have been working for years to receive city permission and win grants to restore and activate the hilly Cheasty Greenspace between Rainier Valley and Beacon Hill. The idea gained a lot of steam and community support, but it also encountered some pretty serious opposition. The…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project, cheasty trails and bike park, joel dejong, mary dejong
June 2, 2015

After years of public process, Cheasty Greenspace trails plan gets green light

After a years long, sometimes heated public process, the Seattle Parks Board voted unanimously to move forward with a pilot set of soft surface biking and walking trails in the hilly Cheasty Greenspace natural area between Rainier Vista and Beacon Hill. The Parks Board of Commissioners (a volunteer advisory board that the Parks Dept. takes…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, board of parks commissioners, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project, rainier valley
September 15, 2014

North Beacon Hill getting much-needed safety upgrades, new trail connection

Work is set to begin next month on a slate of road safety improvements in North Beacon Hill, mostly focused around Beacon Ave S between 14th Ave S and the Mountains to Sound Trail end point just east of I-5. The project consists of two extremely-needed improvements and a bunch of smaller ones. The largest…
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tagged: 14th ave s, beacon ave, beacon hill, mountains-to-sound
July 23, 2014

Cheasty Greenspace mountain bike trail clears Council committee vote

A community plan to build sustainable mountain bike and hiking trails in Cheasty Greenspace has barely cleared a key City Council committee vote, bringing it one step closer to winning the Neighborhood Matching Funds it needs to become reality, Publicola reports. The full City Council is scheduled to vote on the NMF list Monday, though more…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project, city council, neighborhood matching fund
March 24, 2014

Mountain biking in an urban forest? Cheasty MTB Park public meeting Tuesday

Tuesday is shaping up to be quite a packed bike meeting day. The Safe Roads Awareness Week kickoff walk is in the afternoon, then an open house for the second Ballard neighborhood greenway is in the evening. But if mountain biking is your passion, you may want to attend the Cheasty Greenspace Mountain Bike Pilot…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project, meetings, rainier valley
December 26, 2013

A bike tour of the now-open Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway

Two years in the making, the Seattle Department of Transportation completed the Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway this month and officially opened the route for business and bicycling. Proposed by the neighborhood group Beacon BIKES (“Better Infrastructure Keeping Everyone Safer”), the new greenway allows people of all ages and abilities to travel through Beacon Hill by…
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tagged: Beacon BIKES, beacon hill, neighborhood greenways, ryann child