@ajaxStardust Oh yeah even we don't have in-city forest rangers in Seattle. xD This is an urban trail, a commuter route.
If you follow it long enough you can get to some actual wild area trails - Burke Gilman to Sammamish River to... Tolt Pipeline, going east, would let you get into the foothills where you can get some actual forest trails.
"Rail to Trail" is a programme of adapting abandoned rail right-of-ways into bike and walking trails. Originally conceived in part as a way of keeping them available for re-use as railroad trails, walkers and bicyclists became a big constituency.
If you want to look at the bike maps I maintain, you can find a lot of them, and even this location.
This is a bike map covering northwest King County and southwest Snohomish County. It connects the maintained Seattle and 2 Line Eastside bike maps, making them all more useful. - solarbirdy/Northsh...
@ajaxStardust ah yeah, well, we're a city that's near-rainforest and near to rainforests. people find us ... surprisingly green? even in the winter, when we don't think so.
I saw one earlier this evening too, a couple miles north of Matthews beach. I neglected to to take a picture as I was blocking and redirecting the driver who seemed to be doing some kind of delivery as she had a bunch of boxes in the back of her Honda Odyssey. She didn’t seem to understand English and was slow to get my pointing but eventually backed up and went on the lakeside road
I think this section is managed by Seattle Parks. A buddy at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways did a walking audit of parts of the trail with someone from Parks. Let me know if you want a contact
@dgodon To my understanding, all of City of Seattle Burke-Gilman is managed by Seattle Parks. So... wouldn't hurt I guess? Because it sure seems to be a pattern.
Repair trail at prioritized sites as determined by 2015 condition assessment currently under way in collaboration with Seattle Department of Transportation.
I'd ask how they even got on the Burke-Gilman trail, but I recall a few spots where it was possible back in my days when I used to ride it on my bicycle.
I admit, if I saw a car on it, I'd be furious. That was my safe space.
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in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •i dunno. seems like a nice little lane though.
kind of lane that's probably, or at least could likely be, private.
(is that "out on the moors", Moira ?)
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in reply to ajaxStardust • • •@ajaxStardust it’s the burke-gilman trail, the first rail-to-trail, and the most important bike corridor in the seattle area.
and definitely not for cars.
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in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •ahhh. dang.
that's terrible. and it's (obviously) not a forest ranger (municipal/ gvt plates)?
what is "rail to rail"?
People do the "Appalachian Trail" around here (penna). i reckon perhaps similar.
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in reply to ajaxStardust • • •@ajaxStardust Oh yeah even we don't have in-city forest rangers in Seattle. xD This is an urban trail, a commuter route.
If you follow it long enough you can get to some actual wild area trails - Burke Gilman to Sammamish River to... Tolt Pipeline, going east, would let you get into the foothills where you can get some actual forest trails.
"Rail to Trail" is a programme of adapting abandoned rail right-of-ways into bike and walking trails. Originally conceived in part as a way of keeping them available for re-use as railroad trails, walkers and bicyclists became a big constituency.
If you want to look at the bike maps I maintain, you can find a lot of them, and even this location.
https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/
GitHub - solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap: This is a bike map covering northwest King County and southwest Snohomish County. It connects the maintained Seattle and 2 Line Eastside bike maps, making them all more useful.
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in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •Oh yeah! I've heard of that abandoned railway thing. that's cool!
ha! i had to re-read your first paragraph a few times. What... why no forest rangers? Oh. that's right. Urban.
I thought you said rural. i was like...
aahhggghh now i gotta read it all over again!
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in reply to ajaxStardust • • •@ajaxStardust ah yeah, well, we're a city that's near-rainforest and near to rainforests. people find us ... surprisingly green? even in the winter, when we don't think so.
(see also "the emerald city")
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in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •@dgodon Because same place basically.
Both of mine were Burke Gilman near NE 130th.
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in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •I'd ask how they even got on the Burke-Gilman trail, but I recall a few spots where it was possible back in my days when I used to ride it on my bicycle.
I admit, if I saw a car on it, I'd be furious. That was my safe space.
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