Tag: mercer island

March 3, 2022

Alert 3/7: Mercer Island Station construction will detour section of the I-90 Trail ‘long-term’

Work to build Mercer Island Station and redesign the bus connections there will displace a section of the I-90 Trail starting March 7, Sound Transit announced. Though the work area may change as work progresses, expect some kind of trail detour for about a year. The closed section runs along the north side of N…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, mercer island, mercer island station, sound transit
February 5, 2020

Trail Alert 2/6-8: I-90 Trail detour on Mercer Island

Sound Transit work on Mercer Island will close a section of the I-90 Trail starting Thursday and lasting through Saturday. And unfortunately, this stretch of N Mercer Way does not have bike lanes, so people biking will be directed to mix with car traffic. People walking will be directed to use a path on the…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, mercer island
September 22, 2019

Cascade: Mercer Island plan should ‘futureproof’ I-90 Trail, open house Monday

When the I-90 Trail crosses Mercer Island, it climbs up and through a park created in the 1990s to cover the freeway. Posthumously named after and Island Councilmember and Mayor who negotiated with the state to include the lidded park, Aubrey Davis Park hides what would otherwise have been a freeway trench dividing the island…
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tagged: aubrey davis park, cascade bicycle club, I-90 trail, mercer island
February 27, 2019

Learn about the future of Mercer Island’s Mountains to Sound Trail at Thursday open house

The Mercer Island Parks Department is creating a master plan for Aubrey Davis Park, including the Mountains to Sound Trail, and they are looking for public feedback. Their open house got snowed out, so the rescheduled event is 6–8 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) at the Mercer Island Community and Event Center (map) in Luther Burbank Park.…
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tagged: aubrey davis park, mercer island, mountains-to-sound
June 21, 2017

Sound Transit settlement could help fund safe Mercer Island bike/walk station access

Mercer Island’s decision to sue Sound Transit and WSDOT in large part over HOV lane access on I-90 did not make the island a lot friends among people across the region who worried the lawsuit could delay and add costs to East Link light rail service. But after dropping some serious city cash on the…
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tagged: east link, mercer island, mercer island station, sound transit
September 14, 2016

Mercer Island road safety project worked so well they decided…not to do it again?

The number of Mercer Island community members injured in a ten-block stretch of Island Crest Way dropped 75 percent after the city made a simple road safety change. Collisions dropped 61 percent. Traffic continued to flow. The 2012 project worked so well, the city has decided … not repeat it? Huh? The Mercer Island Reporter…
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tagged: island crest way, mercer island