Tag: missing link

June 19, 2015

18 Missing Link victims will go to the hospital by the time the trail study is complete

Hours before a public meeting Thursday to discuss the missing 1.4 miles of the Burke-Gilman Trail in Ballard, an ambulance pulled away from NW 45th Street under the Ballard Bridge to take another injured person to the hospital. By the time the environmental study is complete, eighteen people will crash so badly while biking through…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, missing link
June 18, 2015

Three important bike meetings tonight: Missing Link, E Marginal Way + Eastside Trail

I sure hope you want to go to an important bike meeting tonight, because there are three of them at the same time. And they’re all about completely game-changing projects. So if you have the time, go to one of them and let us know how it went. Please. There’s only one of me, and…
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tagged: burke-gilman trail, eastside trail, marginal way, missing link
June 5, 2015

Finally, movement on court-required Missing Link study + 98.6% voice support for trail

After somehow spending a year and a half to “finish analyzing the feedback from the EIS scoping process held in late 2013,” the city is holding an open house to present the plan to develop a study of options to finally complete the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail. The draft of that study…
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tagged: ballard, ballard chamber of commerce, ballard oil, burke-gilman trail, missing link, salmon bay sand and gravel
April 24, 2015

City finally set to finish Ballard Missing Link tweaks announced in 2012 + Scary near miss video

In late 2012, Councilmember Tom Rasmussen and then-Mayor Mike McGinn held a press conference under the Ballard Bridge to announce a series of temporary safety improvements to the dangerous streets connecting the two severed ends of the Burke-Gilman Trail. Some of those changes have been implemented, and some were improved (they built a two-way bikeway…
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tagged: ballard, missing link, shilshole
March 31, 2015

Cascade publishes very, very long timeline of work to build the Burke-Gilman Missing Link

If the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail were a person born when the city first passed a plan build it, today it could legally go buy a drink. The tale of the Missing Link is really more of a saga. Well, except that instead of exciting adventure, this saga is full of legal…
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tagged: burke-gilman trail, missing link
October 6, 2014

Why the so-called Burke-Gilman ‘Plan B’ is not a solution to the Missing Link

After well more than a decade and dumping cement trucks full of private and public money into design and legal battles over the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail, I can understand why people’s ears might perk up when they hear that there could be a Plan B. The idea certainly captured the imagination…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, jonathan martin, missing link, sally bagshaw