Tag: burke-gilman trail

January 16, 2018

Supporters of a completed Missing Link will host happy hour Wednesday

After decades of public meetings and open houses and letter-writing campaigns, it’s perhaps a bit difficult to get motivated for yet another public event about the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail. But what if I told you there would be beer? A slate of supporting organizations are holding a happy hour 5:30 –…
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tagged: burke-gilman trail, cascade bicycle club, jenny durkan, mike o’brien, missing link
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
November 3, 2017

Trail Alert 11/6-8: Burke-Gilman Trail detour on UW campus

Note that this work could get pushed back depending on weather. We will update when/if we learn of changes to the schedule. Details from the University of Washington: The University of Washington is scheduled to perform surface maintenance on the Burke-Gilman Trail from the early morning of Monday, November 6 through the evening of Wednesday,…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, burke-gilman trail, uw
October 12, 2017

The community-advised Missing Link design keeps getting better for everyone

The Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail has been debated and challenged in court for two decades, and sometimes it’s hard in such a long, frustrating process to remember what this thing is really about. On average, about two people crash badly enough every month along the Missing Link that they need emergency medical…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, missing link, sdot
June 26, 2017

Despite compromise and ongoing community design work, group appeals the Ballard Missing Link

The Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail is headed back into litigation. But despite the pending legal action, the city is still working through the community design process that was was part of the February compromise agreement between SDOT, trail supporters and a group of longtime trail opponents. The city is hosting three drop-in…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, cascade bicycle club, ed murray, eugene wasserman, missing link, warren aakervik
June 20, 2017

Missing Link mega study exhausts the debate + Why the Labor Council still opposes the trail

The smile on Councilmember Mike O’Brien’s face somehow grew even bigger than usual while listening to longtime trail opponents and advocacy staff at Cascade Bicycle Club praise each other for finally hammering out a Ballard Missing Link compromise after decades of arguments, expensive court battles and painful bike crash hospital visits. “I’m kinda all smiles,”…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, martin luther king county labor council, missing link, nicole grant