RELEASE CANDIDATE 1 of the Greater #Northshore Bike Connector Map, built to link the Seattle and 2 Line Eastside Rail maps. Since we haven’t had one and nobody else is going to connect the dots, I decided I would.
Printed at 300dpi, the map is 24″x10.4″ or 608x264mm.
NEW IN RC1:
Steepness markings, measured using Google Maps and trigonometry, with single- and double-chevron indicators pointing uphill and scaled as per the 2 Line map.
A couple of small corrections
NOT listed: trails on private property, short isolated bike lane islands that go nowhere.
For my birthday I rode the Northern Rail Trail today. Longest I’ve ever ridden is under 40 miles and this clocks in at 60, but it’s mostly flat, even a little downhill sometimes. Also had idea of going same number of miles as my age, but ran out of rail trail and didn’t feel like going a few extra miles through rainy streets just for that. #biking#RailTrail
We totally randomly met two #bicycle riders this morning near our home, apparently they're traveling around #Greece & #Albania with bicycles. They are a #German & #Italian couple. We invited them at my mom's home and we all had lunch together. Apparently they are #PhD candidates in #Austria, one in #chemistry and the other one in #biology. Very interesting young people. It was a good day today.
I was surprised when the road on yesterday's gravel ride went from washed out disaster into smooth grass and then crushed granite. No signs, no houses or camps, no logging, no garbage, no signs of vehicles, the roads just faint dotted lines on an otherwise empty map section. Only later when I found a nearby hiking trail did it make sense: equipment access. The roads are maintained and blocked off for service access to aviation and cell tower equipment on nearby hills.
Kirkland's official map - five years out of date - not only fails to show bike lanes that do exist, it shows multiple bike lanes as extant that do not in fact exist. (Or if they do exist, they're invisible on Google Maps, both overhead and streetview.)
Hey can anybody give me authoritative on the bike situation in North Kirkland, particularly 100th Ave NE? Because their map is 5 years out of date and Google's street view alternates between dates in ways that means what bike lanes are there (and I'm confident some are there) flicker in and out of existence for me.
Tried some “back road” exploring on the new gravel bike. The good news is there wasn’t much mud. The bad news is there’s a long section of class IV road they've been using for logging access. Still, once that was passed I popped over the mountain onto some miraculous roads (turns out for air traffic and cell equipment access).
OKAY. Stopping point on the Northshore Bike Map, connecting the latest Seattle and brand new Eastside map.
I've added everything I know and I've stumbled upon a bunch of things I didn't before. This has been educational.
I've also labelled a bunch of stuff, added replacement labels for certain attractions that had their labels obscured, and made a couple of corrections.
I'm not including the sidewalk/path hybrid along Ballinger because while sometimes it sure does feel like a path most of the time it's just "sidewalk."
DO YOU KNOW ROUTES I DON'T?
Tell me about them! But only if they're public. I've not included a couple of trails here because they're private.
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.)