The bike part of the bike and sidewalk improvements on 73rd Ave NE in Kenmore are complete! There's still a little work to be done on the sidewalks, but it's good enough for me for now.
Also some updates to bike shop locations (deleting some in Seattle; adding some in Greater Northshore) and a word correction in the MEGAMAP box.
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
Greater Northshore 1.2.1 will be dropping TONIGHT, as soon as I can add infrastructure on NE 73rd St. that I didn't think was going in until next year. It's going in RIGHT NOW. They're almost done. The bike stuff is done, they're still working on sidewalk railings which are currently there but very temporary structures.
Okay, I'm calling it: RC1 is Release Version 1.2 of the MEGAMAP, the combined bike map including Greater Northshore, complete Seattle (the complete part is new), and 2 Link Eastside maps, with also a little chunk from King County Regional Trails to get us all of Lake Washington.
It be LORGE but it be FAIRLY COMPLETE as bike maps go of Northwest King County, except ironically for the little KC-maintained section. But what that does buy you is the last section of the Lake Washington Loop. So I think it's worth it.
but I still had to cut off a bit of the southernmost parts of Seattle to keep it square
kinda thinking of making an extra version that has the full Seattle map on the left and a bunch of open space centre and right, and labelling it "Here there be dragons, and also, Renton"
i suspect strongly this is another case of Only Funny to Moira but it is funny to me
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.
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
Okay! New map! The attachment is the first representation of dataset 1.1, using a lot of dotted green lines (as per the Seattle map legend) to show non-bike-signed routes commonly used by people biking.
(It's not full resolution because Mastodon shrinks it.)
It also includes a couple of actual bike-supporting routes I missed in dataset 1.0, and a lot more dirt/loose gravel trails, particularly in unincorporated King County and on the northern Eastside. But there's bits of adds everywhere.
The dotted green is experimental. Feedback is definitely requested.
Full resolution is at Github, select the map labelled "EXPERIMENTAL":
I got a question asking "why are the Seattle lines green" and the answer is "because that's the colour set they use on their map" but the real answer is "I need to include enough of their legend for it to make sense."
So now I have.
If you downloaded it before around 8:40pm Saturday May 11, you might grab the new copy if you want the Seattle legend included too.
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"
all that enthusiasm might vanish now that i'm out of their shops but it was pretty strong when I was there - seattle electric bikes was even talking about making a version with more tourist stuff on it an i was like "it's creative commons feel free"
tomorrow i'm gonna hit up the bike shop in lake forest park, gotta get all of northshore
I decided it was kind of rude to cut off discovery park so I widened the workspace to put it back on
and that also gave me the space to add back the west seattle bridge detail so I did that too
and a little cleanup why not
anyway it's 722x656mm or roughly 28.5"x26" now at intended print resolution (300 dpi because that's a standard here)
I really think and hope I'm done with this version, now that I know this thing has legs I'm kinda like "whelp now time to do it over again with proper tools" so that maintenance will be easier and alignment won't be such a bear and a half