Completing the Missing Link along the Shilshole route makes sense: It’s the most simple, safe and connected route that has won the overwhelming public support of people walking and biking over the last two decades. “It’s past time to complete the Burke-Gilman Missing Link, and we support the city’s proposed redesign along Shilshole Ave NW. COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR SHILSHOLE ROUTE Lee Lambert, Cascade Bicycle Club Executive Director. Take action now to show your support for completing the Burke-Gilman Trail to help ensure this plan sticks, and we stay on track for a BIG community celebration in 2023. But the fact is, the Missing Link has already been hung up in court for years, with no end in sight. The cynics among us might feel like we’ve heard this optimism before-without results. This evaluation is one that experts agree on, the community wants, and that we support for just those reasons. The choice of Shilshole Avenue NW as the route of the Missing Link has been affirmed as the most simple, safe and connected route. Tell Leaders: Complete the Burke-Gilman Trail, once and for all!
Without hearing community support (yet again) for the trail along the long-planned for Shilshole route, council members or the mayor-elect might be tempted to back-burner this urgent, long-overdue safety project. And with new blood at City Hall coming in 2022, it’s as important as ever that we be vigilant and ready to demonstrate that the community wants to complete the trail along Shilshole Ave NW. If we’ve learned anything from the last two decades of advocating for completion of the Missing Link, with deep pocketed opponents, nothing is simple. By altering the design to avoid moving the railroad lines under the Ballard Bridge the city doesn’t have to do a dance with the Federal railroad authority. By narrowing the trail slightly, the city believes it can avoid the SEPA environmental review that required the detailed Environmental Impact Statement the city undertook in 2015 and has been defending ever since. This week, Seattle announced a simplified design that side-steps processes that have stalled construction and tied up Cascade and the city in pointless and costly legal fights over technicalities. Appeals ping-ponged back and forth, with the City of Seattle and Cascade Bicycle Club on one side, a handful of deep-pocketed business interests on the other.
Voice your support for completing this project-the only gap in the 44-mile Locks to Lakes Corridor.įor 20 years, the fate of the Missing Link has been the subject of judges' decisions.
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