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Big legal decision supports finishing the Burke-Gilman Missing Link

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

The Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail won a huge legal decision today, with the Seattle Hearing Examiner deciding that SDOT’s environmental study and findings was adequate. After completion of an enormous environmental impact study for the short stretch … Continue reading →

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Supporters of a completed Missing Link will host happy hour Wednesday

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

After decades of public meetings and open houses and letter-writing campaigns, it’s perhaps a bit difficult to get motivated for yet another public event about the Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail. But what if I told you there … Continue reading →

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The community-advised Missing Link design keeps getting better for everyone

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

The Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail has been debated and challenged in court for two decades, and sometimes it’s hard in such a long, frustrating process to remember what this thing is really about. On average, about two … Continue reading →

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Missing Link community design reaches major milestone + Public workshop Thursday

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

The design for the Ballard Missing Link continues to move forward, reaching a major milestone that puts it on track for construction starting in winter 2018. You can check out the latest design details and weigh in at a design … Continue reading →

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Missing Link open house Thursday will dive into the gritty trail design details

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

The Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link team has been working hard in recent months to gather very granular comments about the planned trail route to address safety and business access concerns section-by-section. SDOT staff held a series of workshops on specific trail … Continue reading →

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Despite compromise and ongoing community design work, group appeals the Ballard Missing Link

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

The Ballard Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail is headed back into litigation. But despite the pending legal action, the city is still working through the community design process that was was part of the February compromise agreement between SDOT, … Continue reading →

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Missing Link mega study exhausts the debate + Why the Labor Council still opposes the trail

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

The smile on Councilmember Mike O’Brien’s face somehow grew even bigger than usual while listening to longtime trail opponents and advocacy staff at Cascade Bicycle Club praise each other for finally hammering out a Ballard Missing Link compromise after decades … Continue reading →

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Trail supporters, opponents and city leaders strike a deal to complete the Ballard Missing Link

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

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 →

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Opinion on Missing Link route coalesces even further + send City Hall a Valentine to say: Build it!

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

“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 →

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CM O’Brien urges the Mayor, SDOT to make a choice on the Missing Link

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

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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O’Brien will join Ballard Missing Link happy hour Friday

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Tom Fucoloro

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 →

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Pack these Ballard Missing Link meetings + Business owner’s video explains the options

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Tom Fucoloro

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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Missing Link megastudy confirms: Build the trail already!

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Tom Fucoloro

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 →

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Missing Link claims another victim ahead of tonight’s Ballard safe streets open house

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Tom Fucoloro

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 →

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18 Missing Link victims will go to the hospital by the time the trail study is complete

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Tom Fucoloro

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 →

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Three important bike meetings tonight: Missing Link, E Marginal Way + Eastside Trail

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Tom Fucoloro

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 →

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Finally, movement on court-required Missing Link study + 98.6% voice support for trail

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Tom Fucoloro

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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City finally set to finish Ballard Missing Link tweaks announced in 2012 + Scary near miss video

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Tom Fucoloro

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 →

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Cascade publishes very, very long timeline of work to build the Burke-Gilman Missing Link

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Tom Fucoloro

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 →

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Why the so-called Burke-Gilman ‘Plan B’ is not a solution to the Missing Link

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

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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