WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

TWICE IN TWO DAYS WHY

#biking #seattle #burkegilmantrail #burkegilman

@moira

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 ?)

@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.

@moira

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.

@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: A bike infrastructure mapping project for NW King and SW Snohomish counties, The Greater Northshore Bike Map links the Seattle and 2 Line Eastside maps, making them all more useful. Printed, it folds as small as 4x8½". The MEGAMAP edition combines those maps plus Greater Newcastle into a large foldable poster for display or backpack use.

A bike infrastructure mapping project for NW King and SW Snohomish counties, The Greater Northshore Bike Map links the Seattle and 2 Line Eastside maps, making them all more useful. Printed, it fol...

GitHub

@moira

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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@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")