Tag: meeker southern railroad

October 27, 2023

It’s happeningggggggg!!!!!!!!!

via SDOT Director Greg Spotts. For background on what’s happening here, see our previous story. UPDATE: I biked there so I could touch it myself to confirm it’s real. It is. However, I now see that this looks like a blurry Big Foot photo from a hunt for the mythical Missing Link. Oooh, there’s a…
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tagged: ballard, ballard terminal railroad, greg spotts, meeker southern railroad, missing link, sdot
October 25, 2023

Council approves deal to pave over the Missing Link tracks under the Ballard Bridge

Within hours after the City Council approved a deal with the railroad now formerly known as the Ballard Terminal Railroad Tuesday, SDOT crews had already marked out the area under the Ballard Bridge where they plan to pave over both the railroad tracks and gravel pits in order to create a safe bicycle pathway. Work…
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tagged: ballard, ballard terminal railroad, burke-gilman trail, dan strauss, meeker southern railroad, missing link, sdot
October 11, 2023

Seattle reaches agreement with railroad to pave over dangerous tracks under the Ballard Bridge

In a surprise development in the long, injurious and frustrating history of the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail, Councilmember Dan Strauss announced Tuesday an agreement with the Ballard Terminal Railroad Company that should set the city up to pave over the rarely used tracks near and under the Ballard Bridge. “This is a…
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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, ballard terminal railroad, dan strauss, meeker southern railroad, missing link, nw 45th st, sdot