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From our Bike Events Calendar
May28Sun10:00 am Bicycle Sunday @ Lake Washington BlvdBicycle Sunday @ Lake Washington BlvdMay 28 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
For the 49th year, Seattle kicks off Bicycle Sunday. Three miles of Lake Washington Blvd will go car-free 12 Sundays in 2017. It’s a great chance to experience of the most beautiful urban streets in the world without stressing about … Continue reading10:00 am Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsMay 28 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pmAre you a new volunteer? Do you have worktrade debt from a Bike Works class? Are you a volunteer from Bike Works past and want to re-engage? Are you interested in learning more about bikes while participating in some awesome … Continue readingMay29Mon6:00 am EvergreenHealth 7 Hills of Kirkland @ Marina ParkEvergreenHealth 7 Hills of Kirkland @ Marina ParkMay 29 @ 6:00 am
The 7 Hills of Kirkland offers a choice of three routes. See the 7 Hills of Kirkland web site for more information: http://www.7hillskirkland.org/ The traditional 7 Hills course is approximately 40 miles long with about 3,000 feet of climbing. It … Continue readingMay31Wed6:30 pm Seattle Bike Commuting Tips & Tr... @ Seattle REISeattle Bike Commuting Tips & Tr... @ Seattle REIMay 31 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pmFrom the event page: If you have thought about biking to your destination for exercise or to beat traffic but you are dissuaded by the thought of biking around cars, up hills, in the cold or in the rain, join … Continue readingJun1Thu6:30 pm Bike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsBike Works Volunteer Repair Party @ Bike Works ClassroomsJun 1 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pmDetails: Are you a new volunteer? Do you have worktrade debt from a Bike Works class? Are you a volunteer from Bike Works past and want to re-engage? Are you interested in learning more about bikes while participating in some … Continue reading Be a Seattle Bike Blog Supporter!
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Tag Archives: missing link
Trail supporters, opponents and city leaders strike a deal to complete the Ballard Missing Link
UPDATE: Construction on the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail will break ground by winter 2018, Mayor Ed Murray announced Tuesday during a press conference flanked by both longtime trail supporters and business owners who have fought the trail … Continue reading
Opinion on Missing Link route coalesces even further + send City Hall a Valentine to say: Build it!
“Roses are red, violets are blue. Complete the Missing Link, it’s long overdue.” That’s the text on the adorable valentines Cascade Bicycle Club is urging supporters of the Burke-Gilman Trail to send to city leaders. It is much more friendly … Continue reading
CM O’Brien urges the Mayor, SDOT to make a choice on the Missing Link
Councilmember Mike O’Brien joined neighbors and representatives from nearby businesses Friday to urge SDOT and Mayor Ed Murray to make a decision about their preferred option for the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link in Ballard. “I believe if the city prioritized … Continue reading
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Tagged ballard, burke-gilman trail, ed murray, jessica dickinson, mark mazzola, mike o'brien, missing link
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O’Brien will join Ballard Missing Link happy hour Friday
The city has not yet released its preferred alternative for the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link, but the choice is obvious. Like, really, really, really obvious. However, just in case the city somehow hasn’t already received that message loud and clear, … Continue reading
Pack these Ballard Missing Link meetings + Business owner’s video explains the options
OMG JUST BUILD THE MISSING LINK ALREADY!!!1!1!! OK, had to get that out of my system. As frustrating and drawn out as the seemingly endless Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link debate has been in recent decades (yes, decades!), we have never … Continue reading
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Tagged ballard, burke-gilman trail, haley woods, missing link, peddler brewing company
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Missing Link megastudy confirms: Build the trail already!
829 pages have been added to the already-towering mountain of documents studying the 1.2-mile Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail. An estimated 22 people have gone to the hospital due to crashes on this dangerous stretch just since work … Continue reading
Missing Link claims another victim ahead of tonight’s Ballard safe streets open house
This morning, the train tracks on the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link claimed yet another victim. Reader Ted came across a woman who took a very bad spill in the same spot so many people have crashed before her. After helping … Continue reading
18 Missing Link victims will go to the hospital by the time the trail study is complete
Hours before a public meeting Thursday to discuss the missing 1.4 miles of the Burke-Gilman Trail in Ballard, an ambulance pulled away from NW 45th Street under the Ballard Bridge to take another injured person to the hospital. By the … Continue reading
Three important bike meetings tonight: Missing Link, E Marginal Way + Eastside Trail
I sure hope you want to go to an important bike meeting tonight, because there are three of them at the same time. And they’re all about completely game-changing projects. So if you have the time, go to one of … Continue reading
Finally, movement on court-required Missing Link study + 98.6% voice support for trail
After somehow spending a year and a half to “finish analyzing the feedback from the EIS scoping process held in late 2013,” the city is holding an open house to present the plan to develop a study of options to … Continue reading
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Tagged ballard, ballard chamber of commerce, ballard oil, burke-gilman trail, missing link, salmon bay sand and gravel
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City finally set to finish Ballard Missing Link tweaks announced in 2012 + Scary near miss video
In late 2012, Councilmember Tom Rasmussen and then-Mayor Mike McGinn held a press conference under the Ballard Bridge to announce a series of temporary safety improvements to the dangerous streets connecting the two severed ends of the Burke-Gilman Trail. Some … Continue reading
Cascade publishes very, very long timeline of work to build the Burke-Gilman Missing Link
If the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail were a person born when the city first passed a plan build it, today it could legally go buy a drink. The tale of the Missing Link is really more of … Continue reading
Why the so-called Burke-Gilman ‘Plan B’ is not a solution to the Missing Link
After well more than a decade and dumping cement trucks full of private and public money into design and legal battles over the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail, I can understand why people’s ears might perk up when … Continue reading
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Tagged ballard, burke-gilman trail, jonathan martin, missing link, sally bagshaw
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Ever crash on the Burke-Gilman Missing Link? This awesome sticker is for you
Peddler Brewing, located just a block or so from the Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail, have created a nearly pitch-perfect sticker advocating for a complete trail through the bike-wreck-prone area. Proceeds from the sticker sales will go to advocacy … Continue reading
Business owner sends photos of people crashing on Missing Link, city (finally) finishes temporary bikeway
After five months in a state of partial completion, the city made substantial progress toward completing the temporary Burke-Gilman Missing Link improvements between Shilshole and Fred Meyer Sunday. The two-way bikeway on NW 45th Street is an attempt to increase … Continue reading
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Tagged ballard, burke-gilman trail, dongho chang, michael marian, missing link, sdot
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Months later, ‘Missing Link’ Band-Aid still under construction
In late December, just two weeks before Mayor Mike McGinn left office, the city began work on a project to improve safety on a particularly troublesome section of the Burke-Gilman Missing Link in Ballard. While not a complete solution, the … Continue reading
FamilyRide: Kidical Mass swings by the under-construction Missing Link, Ballard Greenway bike counter
Sunday’s Kidical Mass ride took us to Ballard for our first look at the new two-way bikeway for part of the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link. The paint isn’t down yet and I hope they’ll put more dividers in to make … Continue reading
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Tagged ballard, ballard neighborhood greenways, familyride, kidical mass, missing link, nw 58th st
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City will install two-way bikeway for part of the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link
The city will build a two-way bikeway this month in an attempt to increase safety on a notoriously dangerous stretch of the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link in Ballard. Previously-planned advisory bike lanes on NW 45th Street have been scrapped in … Continue reading
Murray calls Burke-Gilman Trail a ‘treasure,’ hopes for a safe completion of the Ballard Missing Link
Ed Murray’s campaign issued a statement today saying that his comments to the Seattle Times’ Jonathan Martin came off as “overly skeptical” of the city’s plans to complete the Burke-Gilman Trail’s notorious “Missing Link” in Ballard. We wrote about his … Continue reading
Ed Murray does not want to complete the Burke-Gilman Missing Link – UPDATED
“There goes my bike support,” Seattle mayoral candidate joked to the Seattle Times’ Jonathan Martin after coming out against completing the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail. I’m guessing that the hundreds — maybe thousands — of Seattle residents … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013 mayoral race, ballard, burke-gilman trail, ed murray, mike mcginn, missing link
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