Tag: Bike Route Alert

September 8, 2020

Bike Route Alert 9/11-14: 520 Bridge closed, including the trail

The 520 Bridge will be closed 11 p.m. September 11 until 5 a.m. September 14 for a series of major construction projects. These closures include the trail over the lake. The trail under the bridge on the Montlake side connecting Shelby/Hamlin to Lake Washington Blvd will be open during the daytime, but will close at…
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tagged: 520 trail, Bike Route Alert, wsdot
August 14, 2020

Seattle Parks announces week-long, very steep Burke-Gilman Trail detour for … mowing?

People who bike or walk on the Burke-Gilman Trail in northeast Seattle have dealt with a lot of tough detours in recent years. But the detours are always for a good reason, such as the city or county rebuilding or repaving the trail, or because a landslide has washed out a section of the trail.…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, burke-gilman trail, seattle parks district
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 20, 2020

POSTPONED: Southbound U Bridge bike lane closed through Tuesday, NB closed 7/27-29 – UPDATED

UPDATE 7/24: The work is now scheduled for 7/27-29 northbound and 8/10-12 southbound. UPDATE: This work has been postponed. From SDOT: “Unfortunately, this work has been postponed. When we opened the buckets of primer yesterday, we discovered that it had hardened inside of the sealed buckets and was unusable. So we reopened the bike lanes…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, sdot, university bridge
July 20, 2020

Trail Alert: Green River Trail closed at Tukwila Intl Blvd until December

The Green River Trail is closed on the south side of the Duwamish River between Tuwila International Boulevard and E Marginal Way S until November 30. The City of Tukwila is working to daylight Riverton Creek, “which has been flowing through a pipe for roughly 50 years,” according to Tukwila. The detour follows S 112th…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, green river trail, tukwila
May 27, 2020

Alert: Lower Spokane Street Bridge will close overnight May 29-31

The lower Spokane Street Bridge to West Seattle, a vital lifeline for the neighborhood since the upper West Seattle Bridge closed, will itself close for evening-to-overnight work Friday, Saturday and maybe Sunday. That means anyone biking will need to detour to the 1st Ave S Bridge. Yikes. And unfortunately, the closures are scheduled to start…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, lower west seattle bridge, sdot, west seattle