Once they fix the crossing at NE 205th and the two blocks back to proper trail? This will be VERY GOOD.
They've done a lot up in Snohomish County to make the Interurban Trail North better, particularly at road crossings. They're all well marked and distinct, at least up to Alderwood Mall.
I have some edits to make to my map. No new or stricken routes, but a "bumpy" note, extension of a fully-separated lane across another block, and some green dots will change to red dashes because a section I didn't think had signs actually does.
This'll roll into dataset 1.1 rev 6. Since no routes change, there's no urgency.
and it was fine except for right as i got here when i had someone yell at me about my mask and another asshole in a big truck blow by everyone else who had stopped at the bike crossing off the trail to the shopping centre hammering his horn at me.
Trail work for a change. Noticed some "missing teeth" on bridges we biked yesterday so did my best to patch them up. Also cleaned up downed trees and widow makers. Details in the Alt. #hiking#biking#trailWork
while variable, the new bike lane infrastructure on 73rd ave NE in Kenmore varies from acceptable to outstanding with the vast majority very good and better. a couple of places drop to paint-stripe-and-road-turtle but they aren’t long, it’s reasonable where they do, and the lanes are still wide and clearly marked.
The new sidewalk areas also seem to be good quality, but I was paying less attention.
I saw a couple of other bikers, this is being discovered quickly.
other than addressing the lack of a bridge over swamp creek, tolt pipeline right of way needs so little work to make it a good east-west bike corridor
i'm not talking bike-armour good either, i mean road bike. yeah, there's a big hill which means the western side of it will always mostly be e-bikes, but with even my old Class 1, it's fine.
the part that needs work is a big grassy slope that's very similar to a big paved slope on the other side of the hill. It needs work at the very top, and at this little roller-coaster dip halfway up. that, and pavement. That's the part I walked.
everything else you can bike now and it's basically okay.
This happened after I stopped by the kenmore farmer's market to see the little "missing middle housing" city presentation. I also talked to a member of the city council about the Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP bike maps. They're into it.
maybe get a little momentum going here, it'd be nice
Greater Northshore 1.2.1 will be dropping TONIGHT, as soon as I can add infrastructure on NE 73rd St. that I didn't think was going in until next year. It's going in RIGHT NOW. They're almost done. The bike stuff is done, they're still working on sidewalk railings which are currently there but very temporary structures.