Tag: parks and recreation

October 15, 2024

Tell King County Parks trails should be open 24 hours

It’s midnight, and you’re biking home from a night out. Should you ride on the separated biking and walking path or along the side of the nearby state highway? If you think the answer is obvious, then congratulations! You’re a lawbreaker. King County Trails are only open from dawn until dusk. We can debate whether…
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tagged: king county parks, parks and recreation, trail open hours
May 7, 2024

Seattle Parks announces 2024 Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Blvd.

After a brief moment of excitement when Seattle Parks announced what appeared to be an expanded schedule for Bicycle Weekends this summer, the department corrected itself and confirmed that they are repeating the reduced schedule from 2023. The events previously known as Bicycle Sunday will still be a great time as they have been since…
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tagged: bicycle sunday, bicycle weekends, bicycle weekends 2024, parks and recreation
March 15, 2024

Parks Dept will fix Burke-Gilman bumps north of Matthews Beach + Transpo Plan looks to future trail rebuild

The signs are already up along the Burke-Gilman Trail alerting riders to the Parks Department’s plans to fix some bumps along the oldest stretch of the stories rail-trail north of Matthews Beach Park. Some of the pavement along this stretch is 46 years old. It may have helped launch the nation’s rails-to-trails movement, but it…
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tagged: 2024 Seattle Transportation Plan, Bike Route Alert, burke-gilman trail, parks and recreation, sdot
January 10, 2024

Seattle’s mixed history building neighborhood greenways

Neighborhood greenways have a hit and miss history in Seattle. Sometimes they create fantastic all ages and abilities walking and biking connections, and sometimes they are so heavily compromised that they do very little. So as Seattle prepares to create a new transportation plan and craft a new transportation funding measure, we should probably get…
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tagged: 2024 transportation funding measure, beacon hill, delridge, neighborhood greenways, parks and recreation, rainier valley neighborhood greenway, ryan packer, sdot, seattle transportation plan, the urbanist
December 5, 2023

Alert: Slide blocking Burke-Gilman Trail in Lake City

UPDATE: The trail reopened Wednesday. The atmospheric river inundating Seattle has triggered a small landslide along a slide-prone section of the Burke-Gilman Trail in Lake City between Lakeside Place NE and NE 112th Street. Seattle Parks says they hope to clear the trail by 4:30 p.m. The (hopefully) good news is that this section of…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, burke-gilman trail, lake city, parks and recreation
November 28, 2023

Alert 11/27-12/8: Burke-Gilman Trail closed for repairs near Matthews Beach – UPDATED

UPDATE 12/1: Reader Chris says the trail is temporarily open again, and the signs now say that the detour will return 12/4-8. The Fix the Burke-Gilman Facebook page (definitely worth following to stay up to date on these closures) posted an update from the project team: “They moved some of the detour signs around and…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, burke-gilman trail, parks and recreation