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
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!
anyway here’s the view west off the bridge down the slough. the crew boat oars were tipped in WSU colours so that’s a thing, is that you or someone else with the same oars?
(eta: totally not wsu, I was wearing sunglasses and misread the oar colours in person lol. It's lakeside school!)
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 ^_^
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.
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.
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.
city of kenmore says the 68th ave ne bike lanes go all the way up to the county border (via 203rd or whatever it is), google keeps insisting they do not
The no-longer-missing link in Kenmore between Burke-Gilman and Aidine/68th NE got more paint and also road turtles, and the nearest other intersection got spaces and turtles too to discourage cutting those corners. Pleased to see it!