Okay so with no show stoppers appearing, I've dropped Greater Northshore BIke Map 1.2 - Late May 2024, which shows bike infrastructure and adds preferred non-infrastructure routes between the Seattle and the new Eastside 2 Line Bike Connector maps.
It covers Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, Bothell, Woodinville, Juanita, parts of north Redmond that the 2 Line leaves out, and a decent chunk of unincorporated NE King County.
Next up will be a revision of the MEGAMAP, a map that pastes together the Greater Northshore map and the two others into one big poster-sized beast.
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.
The recreated crannog on Loch Tay, at the amazing Scottish Crannog Centre near Kenmore in Perthshire. It has since been sadly destroyed but has been replaced nearby. This is a type of dwelling that 2,500 years ago would have been a common sight across Scotland and Ireland. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kenmore/crannogcentre/index.html
Well I didn't get any corrections (but found a small one of my own) so the re-implementation of the Greater Northshore Connector Bike Map - now with slightly more map height, contrast, and more easily seen lines - has dropped. Enjoy!
Or if you don't mind .jpg and a little chopped off the bottom I guess you could just grab the preview here, it's at full resolution, just compressed a little and some of the bottom removed to fit.
and also because despite that i biked to seattle electric bikes in bothell and #bothell ski and bike in #kenmore and told them about my maps and showed them small versions and once they finally accepted that i really wasn't trying to sell them anything they were really into it
like me they are sick of having no king county bike map and here i walk in with half of one
seattle electric bikes in bothell was even "we would pay you for these" but i know i can't break even doing that so said "just go to fedex"
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.
RELEASE CANDIDATE 2 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 RC2:
Added note "very difficult" to part of Tolt Pipeline Trail.
Added steepness indicators on Goat Trail Road/NE 178th.
Added steepness indicator on short path from Burke-Gilman to 61st Ave NE.
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.)
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.)
Discovery Land Company (DLC) plans to create a private resort for the mega-rich on over 8000 acres of land at #TaymouthCastle, #Kenmore, #GlenLyon and areas around Loch Tay. They threaten to destroy natural habitats & cultural heritage along with land access rights for the people of Scotland.
DLC sales brochure claims Scotland is “an untouched playground”
Pease help protect #LochTay from this corporate #colonialist attack.
Cory Doctorow at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, Mon 2/26 at 7pm
The Bezzle: A Martin Hench Novel
A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, The Bezzle is a sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues.
Cory Doctorow returns to Third Place Books for the next book in his Martin Hench series, a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares. This event is free and open to the public.
"Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction authors."
—Kim Stanley Robinson
"Cory Doctorow doesn't just write about the future—I think he lives there!"
—Kelly Link
A couple of photos I took yesterday down at Log Boom Park. I don't know if it was mist, fog, or smoke on the other side of the lake, but it was very picturesque. #Kenmore#LogBoomPark#Photo#nature#sky#LakeWashington
Great photo walk through the forest at Saint Edwards Park organized by Kenmore Canera and led by Dan Hawk (who I’ve corresponded with for years and finally met in person for the first time!).
I forgot to post this yesterday. Our yard is a popular thruway for wildlife in our area. My office space is right next to one of the most poplar spots. I've been trying to get a shot of this guy for a while but he usually just speeds right through. Yesterday he stopped and looked back at me after I took my first photo. #Coyote#Wildlife#Kenmore
Giant Sturgeon washes up on Kenmore beach, Lake Washington. 8 feet long and weighed approximately 300 to 400 pounds. It was estimated to be 60 to 80 years old.
realised yesterday I hadn’t actually gone down 68th (Aidine) in #Kenmore since they put in the new bridge so here it is from the far side looking back north - it’s very nice!
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 ^_^
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.
I was in the Loch Tay area recently. Even from a car driving past, it was possible to see the extent of the works at #Taymouth Castle. It's as if a motorway is being driven through the glen. I'm not surprised that locals in the village of #Kenmore are concerned https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66536183
I was out #biking and saw a few "Burke Gilman - Interurban Trail interconnect" signs and ended up chasing them down. The southern ones are horrible, the northern ones are similar to how I used to bike to Shoreline Community College for school.
Anyway one thing lead to another and I think this is the least likely to kill you route from Lake Forest Park Town Centre to Alderwood Mall, in case for gods only know what reason you wanted to go there. But as a subset of that, it's also the least bad Burke Gilman<->Interurban (North) connection.