Tag: ballard

July 26, 2023

After community urging, SDOT adds last-minute safety improvements to 15th Ave NW paving project

SDOT just added some significant safety improvements to the 15th Ave NW paving project before declaring the design 100% complete and ready for construction. No, the changes to not fix the horrible sidewalks across the Ballard Bridge, which is easily the biggest problem with this stretch of the street. However, SDOT will add a median…
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tagged: 15th ave NW, ballard, ballard bridge, fremont-ballard greenways, greg spotts, sdot
July 20, 2023

Cascade, Appellants issue dueling press statements as Missing Link continues to be tied in legal knots

Josh Brower, attorney for the appellant group fighting the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail in court, put out a lengthy press release claiming victory (see full statement below). Cascade responded, likening the statement to “a baseball team quitting before the 9th inning.” My main squabble with the Cascade statement is that we are…
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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, cascade bicycle club, josh brower, missing link, sdot
July 1, 2023

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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tagged: ballard, bruce harrell, burke-gilman trail, dan strauss, missing link, sdot
March 10, 2023

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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tagged: ballard, burke-gilman trail, cascade bicycle club, dan strauss, lee lambert, missing link
January 12, 2023

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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tagged: ballard, ballard bridge, burke-gilman trail, missing link, nw 45th st, sdot
January 9, 2023

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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tagged: 15th ave NW, ballard, ballard bridge, ballard-fremont greenways, reconnect ballard, sdot