Tag: missing link

October 7, 2013

Ed Murray does not want to complete the Burke-Gilman Missing Link – UPDATED

“There goes my bike support,” Seattle mayoral candidate joked to the Seattle Times’ Jonathan Martin after coming out against completing the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail. I’m guessing that the hundreds — maybe thousands — of Seattle residents and visitors who have crashed and injured themselves on this stretch of notoriously dangerous road…
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tagged: 2013 mayoral race, ballard, burke-gilman trail, ed murray, mike mcginn, missing link
August 21, 2013

City begins work on Missing Link ‘advisory bike lanes’

Wait, what are those spray painted lines on NW 45th Street at the east end of the Missing Link? It’s the beginning of work on the city’s planned Band Aid fixes to help prevent crashes on the notoriously dangerous stretch of road just west of Fred Meyer and the abrupt end of the Burke-Gilman Trail.…
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tagged: advisory bike lanes, ballard, construction, missing link, sdot
August 15, 2013

OMG, do we really need to say this again? Complete the Missing Link already!

Seriously, I’m not sure how many more ways we can say this. Complete the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail! Tomorrow is the deadline to comment on the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement the city is beginning to put together about the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link in Ballard. Yes, it’s true. A decade…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, missing link
July 29, 2013

August meeting will discuss scope of yet another Burke-Gilman Missing Link study

It has officially been a full decade since the City Council adopted plans to complete the Burke-Gilman Trail’s notorious Missing Link in Ballard (so notorious that is now a proper noun). The city is now starting it’s next attempt to break a legal logjam that has blocked its construction for years. But don’t get too…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, missing link
December 27, 2012

Today: City will announce Missing Link safety improvements – UPDATED

Mayor McGinn and Councilmember Tom Rasmussen will announce safety improvements to the Burke-Gilman Missing Link in Ballard this afternoon, according to Cascade Bicycle Club. They will be underneath the Ballard Bridge on Shilshole at 2:30 p.m. For a brief recap: The Missing Link has been planned, designed, approved and funded. However, a group of supposed…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, cascade bicycle club, mike mcginn, missing link, tom rasmussen
August 30, 2012

As Missing Link goes back for even more studies, it’s time for an interim solution

It’s true. Apparently six years of studies on the Burke-Gilman Missing Link through Ballard is not enough, and the Hearing Examiner has ordered the city to produce a costly and time-consuming Environmental Impact Statement for the sorely-needed trail segment. Meanwhile, people continue to get injured (one woman was even the victim of a hit and…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, cascade bicycle club, missing link