Tag: kirkland
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King County will remove old rails on the Eastside Trail + Kirkland plans rapid bus along the trail
King County will remove the rails on the Eastside Trail, a vital step toward creating a walkable and bikeable trail from Woodinville to Renton. The work was proposed by King County Executive Dow Constantine and approved by the King County Council. The rails are defunct and abandoned, and the scrap value of the rails should…
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A closer look at the Eastside Trail plans + Give feedback online
A bikeable and walkable Eastside Trail can’t come soon enough. The rails-to-trails potential for the mostly-defunct Eastside Rail Corridor is immense for growing communities east of Lake Washington. Connecting homes to jobs and new regional trail connections across and along 520, a complete and connected Eastside Trial would simply revolutionize people-powered transportation and recreation in…
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How you can get a taste of the future 520 Trail connecting the Eastside and Seattle
The 520 highway expansion project is a $4.47 billion investment mostly focused on car travel. The planned connections into Seattle remain unfunded by at least $1.6 billion, and the state’s Seattle designs still present a lot of walking and biking safety challenges in Montlake (more on that soon). But let’s ignore all that for a just…
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Kirkland’s new trail changes everything
There was Kirkland before the Cross Kirkland Corridor Trail, and now there is Kirkland after. The city officially opened the interim hardpack gravel trail over the weekend, and now the Eastside city has a flat and safe biking and walking route connecting Totem Lake to the South Kirkland Park-and-Ride and nearly to the 520 Trail.…
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No charges for person who killed man walking his dog in a Kirkland crosswalk
Prosecutors for the City of Kirkland will not pursue any charges against the woman who struck and killed Kyle Warnick while he walked his dog in a city crosswalk September 15. He was 43. On a YouCaring page, family members describe Warnick as a story teller: Kyle was one of a kind. His love for…
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Feds reject railroad lawsuit threatening the Eastside Trail, Kirkland section opens soon
The case for freight rail service as a reason to stop to the Cross Kirkland Corridor Trail (one part of the Eastside Rail Corridor) always seemed rather weak. But since it would be decided by a Federal agency and laws governing rail are often old and sometimes strange, a lawsuit by the Ballard Terminal Railroad…
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