Tag: missing link

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
September 26, 2017

Missing Link community design reaches major milestone + Public workshop Thursday

The design for the Ballard Missing Link continues to move forward, reaching a major milestone that puts it on track for construction starting in winter 2018. You can check out the latest design details and weigh in at a design workshop 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Ballard Eagleson VFW. Of course, the design…
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tagged: ballard, missing link, sdot
July 12, 2017

Missing Link open house Thursday will dive into the gritty trail design details

The Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link team has been working hard in recent months to gather very granular comments about the planned trail route to address safety and business access concerns section-by-section. SDOT staff held a series of workshops on specific trail sections in recent weeks, and now they are hosting a big open house to discuss…
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tagged: ballard, missing link
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
February 28, 2017

Trail supporters, opponents and city leaders strike a deal to complete the Ballard Missing Link

UPDATE: Construction on the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail will break ground by winter 2018, Mayor Ed Murray announced Tuesday during a press conference flanked by both longtime trail supporters and business owners who have fought the trail for decades. “I’m kinda all smiles,” said Councilmember Mike O’Brien, who in addition to representing…
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tagged: ballard, ed murray, mike o’brien, missing link