Tag: lake washington bike path

August 14, 2024

Trail connection to planned Roanoke Lid would restore a historic Seattle bike path + Tell WSDOT not to cut it

Not only would the Harvard Ave path connect the Roanoke Lid and 520 Trail along a safer and less steep route, it would also restore a small piece of Seattle’s first ever bike paths. You can support a Central Seattle Greenways effort to protect the proposed path from budget cuts on the freeway megaproject. The…
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tagged: action alerts, central seattle greenways, history, i-5, interlaken, lake union bike path, lake washington bike path, roanoke, roanoke lid, sr 520, wsdot
June 10, 2022

Thorness: Celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Lake Washington Bike Path

The Lake Washington Bike Path turns 125 this year! Or it would if it weren’t torn up in 1905 to build Interlaken Boulevard. Bill Thorness, author of “Cycling the Pacific Coast” and “Biking Puget Sound,” wrote a story for the Seattle Times about the history of the old path. Thorness also spoke with yours truly…
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tagged: bill thorness, history, interlaken, lake washington bike path, seattle times