Tag: Bike Route Alert

August 13, 2019

Trail Alert 8/16-18: Big Burke-Gilman Trail detour planned through UW

UW will detour a significant stretch of the Burke-Gilman Trail between Pend Oreille Rd and Rainier Vista this weekend for tree removal work. The detour will be in place starting 6 a.m. Friday morning and going through Sunday evening. Work hours are 7 a.m. through 3:30 p.m. The route is largely on-road, but hopefully traffic…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert
May 2, 2019

Trail Alert 5/6: Burke-Gilman detour near Seattle city limit

The Burke-Gilman Trail will be closed for a stretch May 6 around Seattle’s border with Lake Forest Park so King County Parks can remove six hazardous trees. The good news is that this stretch parallels Riviera Pl NE, which should be an easy detour route. Details from King County Parks: Trail closed between 42nd Pl…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert
April 23, 2019

Trail Alert: Chief Sealth Trail detour at S Graham St

The Chief Sealth Trail will be detoured for about two blocks along S Graham St and 31st Ave S starting today (April 22) and lasting up to one month. The closure is for a project to make crossing improvements where the trail route crosses Graham, so that’s the good news. The bad news is that…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, chief sealth trail
February 18, 2019

Trail Alert: Burke-Gilman blocked by downed tree in Bothell until Tuesday

A large tree fell over the weekend and has blocked the Burke-Gilman Trail in Bothell, and King County Parks says it cannot remove the tree until Tuesday. The tree is blocking the trail at about 91st Ave NE, a tricky spot in the trail route with no easy detour route. And Parks says no detour…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, burke-gilman trail, king county parks
November 13, 2018

ALERT: West Seattle swing bridge will be out from 7-9 Tuesday night, shuttles available

Attention folks who bike across the lower West Seattle Bridge: SDOT just announced a closure from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight (Tuesday). As with the previous closure, there will be a shuttle to help folks walking and biking get across, but this will add significant delay. So leave early or late if you can. Otherwise,…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, lower west seattle bridge, west seattle
December 4, 2017

Trail Alert 12/4–1/31: Seattle Parks begins repair work on old, bumpy sections of the Burke-Gilman

Be prepared for detours on the Burke-Gilman Trail in NE Seattle over the next two months. Seattle Parks is making much-needed repairs to 13 segments of this aging, bumpy and extremely popular trail, starting with the divided stretch of trail that runs through a sunken area between 40th Ave NE and NE 65th Street. All…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, burke-gilman trail, parks and recreation, seattle parks district