Tag: ballard
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SDOT begins study of CM Strauss’s Leary Way concept for the Missing Link + Legal update on Shilshole
At the urging of Councilmember Dan Strauss and with Mayor Bruce Harrell’s support, SDOT is beginning early design work on a potential alternative for the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link in Ballard. Though the city has a design fully completed and ready for construction along Shilshole Ave NW, the construction permits are held up in court…
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CM Strauss asks mayor to study Market and Leary for Missing Link
Councilmember Dan Strauss sent a letter (PDF) to Mayor Bruce Harrell asking him to shift SDOT’s Missing Link efforts to focus on designing and building a Burke-Gilman Trail connection on Market Street and Leary Way in Ballard. “I see a lot of positive attributes to bringing this trail into our businesses and multi-use core,” said…
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SDOT’s new gravel pits under the Ballard Bridge baffle riders, more changes coming ‘in 2023’
SDOT completed work on an “interim” redesign of the problematic track crossing under the Ballard Bridge for people attempting to bike the Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail, but the new gravel pits sporadically placed in the area seems to be baffling riders rather than helping them. People have been crashing on the train tracks…
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Neighbors create detailed plan for how the 15th Ave NW paving project can ‘Reconnect Ballard’
SDOT’s most recent plans for the department’s 15th Ave NW repaving project, which includes the Ballard Bridge, would make very few if any tangible safety improvements for people biking. But neighbors are organizing in an effort to get some key safety improvements added to the $16.2 million project. Ballard-Fremont Greenways created an effort they call…
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SDOT will try again to make rail crossing under the Ballard Bridge safer
SDOT is set to start work as soon as Monday on another fix to hopefully prevent people from crashing while biking across the train tracks under the Ballard Bridge as they navigate the notorious Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link. Crews will tear out sections of the roadway and replace it with gravel in hopes that this…
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Cycle Dogs needs support after troubled move to brick and mortar shop
When I think of Cycle Dogs, I think of sitting in the backyard of Peddler Brewing eating a creative and delicious vegan dog. What started as a hot dog cart in a bike trailer (we wrote about the initial Cycle Dogs cart back in 2014) grew into a food truck and, in 2021, a brick…
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