Tag: kirkland

January 4, 2016

Celebrate the Eastside Trail with rail spike removal Friday, summit Saturday

It’s very difficult to overstate how huge an impact the Eastside Trail will have on regional bikeability and livability. Traveling through or very near city centers, neighborhoods and employment centers in Woodinville, Kirkland, Bellevue and Renton the trail itself will revolutioninze non-motorized transportation east of Lake Washington. Add to that existing and future trail links…
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tagged: bellevue, cascade bicycle club, chainline brewing, cross kirkland corridor, dow constantine, eastside rail corridor, eastside trail, king county, kirkland
November 16, 2015

King County will remove old rails on the Eastside Trail + Kirkland plans rapid bus along the trail

King County will remove the rails on the Eastside Trail, a vital step toward creating a walkable and bikeable trail from Woodinville to Renton. The work was proposed by King County Executive Dow Constantine and approved by the King County Council. The rails are defunct and abandoned, and the scrap value of the rails should…
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tagged: cross kirkland corridor, dow constantine, eastside rail corridor, eastside trail, king county, king county council, kirkland
October 23, 2015

A closer look at the Eastside Trail plans + Give feedback online

A bikeable and walkable Eastside Trail can’t come soon enough. The rails-to-trails potential for the mostly-defunct Eastside Rail Corridor is immense for growing communities east of Lake Washington. Connecting homes to jobs and new regional trail connections across and along 520, a complete and connected Eastside Trial would simply revolutionize people-powered transportation and recreation in…
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tagged: bellevue, cascade bicycle club, eastside rail corridor, eastside trail, king county, kirkland, mckayla dunfey, renton, woodinville
February 4, 2015

How you can get a taste of the future 520 Trail connecting the Eastside and Seattle

The 520 highway expansion project is a $4.47 billion investment mostly focused on car travel. The planned connections into Seattle remain unfunded by at least $1.6 billion, and the state’s Seattle designs still present a lot of walking and biking safety challenges in Montlake (more on that soon). But let’s ignore all that for a just…
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tagged: bellevue, evergreen point, hunt’s point, kirkland, medina, sr 520, yarrow point
February 2, 2015

Kirkland’s new trail changes everything

There was Kirkland before the Cross Kirkland Corridor Trail, and now there is Kirkland after. The city officially opened the interim hardpack gravel trail over the weekend, and now the Eastside city has a flat and safe biking and walking route connecting Totem Lake to the South Kirkland Park-and-Ride and nearly to the 520 Trail.…
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tagged: cross kirkland corridor, eastside rail corridor, eastside trail, kirkland
January 30, 2015

No charges for person who killed man walking his dog in a Kirkland crosswalk

Prosecutors for the City of Kirkland will not pursue any charges against the woman who struck and killed Kyle Warnick while he walked his dog in a city crosswalk September 15. He was 43. On a YouCaring page, family members describe Warnick as a story teller: Kyle was one of a kind. His love for…
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tagged: blakeley warbinton, caleb shoop, john duggan, kirkland, kyle warnick, vulnerable user law