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.
Watch your school board races! I mean it! We have a couple of moms4liberty cult chapters and they're doing what they always do, running fascists in stealth mode, so pay attention! We can have bullshittery here too, and weird amounts of money are being dumped in. (Forex, the City of Kenmore council race. wtf is up with that?)
When @annathepiper and I went out biking today I stopped to take a picture of the new lights they put in on the small street crossing that's part of the Burke-Gilman to Lake Washington Loop connector in Kenmore. (A former small "missing link," no longer missing. The bike lanes are separated with distance striping and road turtles. Imperfect but much better than what was there before, which was nothing.)
I got a question asking "why are the Seattle lines green" and the answer is "because that's the colour set they use on their map" but the real answer is "I need to include enough of their legend for it to make sense."
So now I have.
If you downloaded it before around 8:40pm Saturday May 11, you might grab the new copy if you want the Seattle legend included too.
Also also also, since I'm talking about #Kenmore and #NorthShore and #biking - the city poll on how to handle sidewalks on 61st Ave NE up to the county line - which includes bike lanes - is still taking responses, info here:
The bike lanes are happening regardless (which is great) but the sidewalks are a big question because of old street trees planted in bad places. Despite the posted date range, the survey is still open, I think until the end of the month.
The connector (to the right, which leads to Burke-Gilman) is usable but not fully painted yet even at this end. The middle mostly isn’t painted at all. But that looks like all that’s really left to do though unless there’s more asphalt needed somewhere not obvious to me.
Several bikers went by while I was stopped to take this photo so it’s already seeing some use which is great ^_^
This version adds heatmap-sourced non-bike-infrastructure routes that people use anyway as a new class, in Seattle-style green. Think of them as demand paths.
I think they're worth adding because they tell people: yes, people use these fragments of infrastructure; this is how they connect together. This is where people actually go.
Also more dirt trails, a little more road-level infrastructure - minor stuff - and an improved legend.
The attached is at reduced resolution because that's what Mastodon does. But it's okay.
Here, have the quickly-made MEGAMAP 1, a combination of the new Greater Northshore Connector Bike Map, most of the City of Seattle 2023 Bike Map, and the April 2024 2 Line Connector Eastside Bike Map.
It is NOT SMALL. Printed at native 300dpi, it's right about 26" square, or 660mm square.
Talking of #northshore, might as well mention that they're about done with the little three-block missing bike link between Burke-Gilman and the West Sammamish River Bridge bike path, which heads south into #Arrowhead towards #Kirkland - pavement was down last time I was there and at least some of the signage. No paint yet, but it's supposed to be done pretty soon.
here have my woefully incomplete Northshore bridging map connecting connecting at least some of the Seattle bike map to the new eastside bike and bus connector map for the new 2 line.
if anybody has anything they want me to prioritize adding let me know! it really is mostly incomplete. i just wanted to get some of the most important connectors in. (And carry forward everything coming off the top of the new eastside map.)
but I still had to cut off a bit of the southernmost parts of Seattle to keep it square
kinda thinking of making an extra version that has the full Seattle map on the left and a bunch of open space centre and right, and labelling it "Here there be dragons, and also, Renton"
i suspect strongly this is another case of Only Funny to Moira but it is funny to me
Okay, I'm calling it: RC1 is Release Version 1.2 of the MEGAMAP, the combined bike map including Greater Northshore, complete Seattle (the complete part is new), and 2 Link Eastside maps, with also a little chunk from King County Regional Trails to get us all of Lake Washington.
It be LORGE but it be FAIRLY COMPLETE as bike maps go of Northwest King County, except ironically for the little KC-maintained section. But what that does buy you is the last section of the Lake Washington Loop. So I think it's worth it.
MKE County: Whitefish Bay Affordable Housing Development Approved on Appeal (urbanmilwaukee.com)
From the Article:...
F Street to demolish Brown Deer offices for 148 new apartments (www.bizjournals.com)
It's good to see more new developments around there....