Tag: burke-gilman trail
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Decades-long private encroachment along Burke-Gilman Trail finally cleared to make small lakeside park
For decades, a small public space along the Burke-Gilman Trail just north of the Seattle city limit has been hidden behind a private fence. But no more. It took a remarkable amount of work to open this small space. Volunteers on a county advisory committee learned about the illegal fence and other private structures a…
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Court decides Hearing Examiner needs to redo 2018 Missing Link decision
Many Seattleites have only ever known life with the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail held up in court. Children born when the City Council first approved the route are now getting ready to vote in their first election. Seattle has nearly wasted an entire generation arguing over about 1.2 miles of trail, and…
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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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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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Technicality about updating railroad track delays Ballard Missing Link until 2022
Appellants fighting the city’s decades-long plan to finally complete the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail have successfully found another legal maneuver to further delay the needed safety project until 2022, the Seattle Times reports. A King County Court has decided (PDF) that Seattle cannot redesign the railroad tracks along Shilshole Ave NW and…
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Bike counters show weekend and trail rides are up as much as 70% since the outbreak began
The number of bike trips across the Fremont Bridge in February was 47% higher than the February average from 2013-19, continuing a trend of strong year-over-year bike trip growth in recent years. But then March happened, and employers shut down offices and fired workers. Unemployment skyrocketed along with working at home as our city attempted…
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