Tag: burke-gilman trail

December 21, 2012

City may not clear Burke-Gilman closure before evening commute – UPDATE: Open, but muddy

UPDATE: Seattle Parks says the trail should be open by 4:30, but expect it to be muddy. Crews will power wash the trail tomorrow morning. Seattle Parks was rushing to clear a mudslide on the Burke-Gilman Trail in near the city border before the evening commute, but an equipment failure means that does not look…
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tagged: burke-gilman trail, king county parks, mudslides
December 20, 2012

Tree blocking Burke-Gilman Trail in Bothell – UPDATE: Cleared!

UPDATE: Looks like landslide season has very much started on the Burke-Gilman. Here’s one just north of Seattle: Mud slide at Ne 42nd PL just up from the new paved section toward the UW #cycling@cityofseattle twitter.com/SLadams99/stat… — S. Adams (@SLadams99) December 21, 2012 This just in: Burke-Gilman Trail alert: We’ve been notified of a tree…
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tagged: bothell, burke-gilman trail, king county parks
December 5, 2012

City repairing Burke-Gilman Trail near Matthew’s Beach

The city is making repairs to the Burke-Gilman Trail near Matthew’s Beach all week. The work will address the many tree root bumps and cracks, and crews will avoid major commute hours. From SDOT: Paving crews from the Seattle Department of Transportation plan to repair the pavement this week on the Burke Gilman Trail by…
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tagged: burke-gilman trail, construction, matthew’s beach, sdot
August 30, 2012

As Missing Link goes back for even more studies, it’s time for an interim solution

It’s true. Apparently six years of studies on the Burke-Gilman Missing Link through Ballard is not enough, and the Hearing Examiner has ordered the city to produce a costly and time-consuming Environmental Impact Statement for the sorely-needed trail segment. Meanwhile, people continue to get injured (one woman was even the victim of a hit and…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, cascade bicycle club, missing link
July 25, 2012

Trail etiquette: What do you think of Cascade’s new anti-headphone signs?

Trail etiquette. Stay to the right, use voice or bell, slow down when passing, don’t use headphones, and on and on. There are certain guidelines that make shared use trails work better, and Cascade Bicycle Club is launching a campaign to highlight some of them. In a lot of ways, our shared use spaces (like…
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tagged: ballard bridge, burke-gilman trail, cascade bicycle club, fremont bridge, headphones, trails
July 5, 2012

On 1 of the biggest DUI days of the year, police stop Burke-Gilman cyclists for entering crosswalk during countdown

I received a discouraging email from a reader who says a motorcycle cop in Lake Forest Park spent his July 4 stopping cyclists who entered the trail crosswalks after the pedestrian signal countdown had started. Not because the light was red or the signal had a solid “Don’t Walk,” but because it was blinking when…
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tagged: burke-gilman trail, lake forest park, police, redmond