A bicycle-pedestrian path on the newly opened east section of the Bay Bridge over San Francisco Bay opened on Tuesday, holding the promise of a cross-bay bike route in the future.
At present, however, it’s kind of a bike path to nowhere as it stops short of Yerba Buena Island in the middle of the channel because of a design snafu.
The bike path opened at noon Tuesday …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/03/bicycle-path-opens-on-new-bay-bridge-span-in-oakland/
A section of the Snoqualmie Valley Regional Trail between Snoqualmie and North Bend is open for bicycling again after the replacement of a rail-trail bridge.
King County closed the 1.7-mile length of packed gravel trail in May so workers could get in to replace a timber bridge that had been damaged by fire. The new, …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/08/25/bridge-finished-snoqualmie-valley-trail-reopens/
For the first time since 2009 all five tunnels on the John Wayne Pioneer Trail in the Iron Horse State Park are open for bicycling.
You just have to leave your name at the entrance to a couple of them. Liability issues, you know.
The state closed all five tunnels on the 100-mile stretch of …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/07/19/all-john-wayne-pioneer-trail-tunnels-reopen/
Contractors are working to repair two tunnels on the John Wayne Pioneer Trail that have been closed since 2009 when inspectors found falling debris hazards inside of them.
The two former railroad tunnels — Numbers 48 and 49 on the old Chicago-Milwaukee-St. Paul-Pacific Railroad, commonly known as the Milwaukee Road — are located east of …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/13/state-repairing-2-more-tunnels-on-john-wayne-pioneer-rail-trail-2-others-still-closed/
Hmmm, baby. Just what I like to see — a freshly paved bike trail. Just got to wait a couple of days for it to open.
This is the Issaquah Trailhead for the East Lake Sammamish Trail that rolls out between Issaquah and Redmond.
The 11-mile trail opened as a gravel rail-trail in 2006, and …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/06/09/issaquah-section-of-east-lake-sammamish-trail-opens-tuesday/
A 1.7-mile stretch of the Snoqualmie Valley Trail between the Mount Si Golf Course and North Bend will be closed for bridge replacement until mid-August.
There is no off-road detour. To get from one side to the other, bicyclists have to ride on Boalch Avenue (there’s an adjacent trail through the old Meadowbrook farm) and …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/05/04/snoqualmie-valley-trail-closed-near-north-bend-until-august/
There’s something about historical highway plaques and markers that are extremely distracting when I’m bicycling through new territory.
When we started our cross-country bike ride in Virginia, for instance, my poor friend Bruce probably thought we’d never get to Kentucky as I was constantly stopping to read the signs.
There were lots of Civil War …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/04/29/signs-of-the-old-times-appearing-washington-and-pennsylvania-bicycle-trails/
It looks like Pittsburgh’s last leg of the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) will open soon, finally completing a 335-mile off-road bicycle route from Washington DC to Pittsburgh. [See the interactive map below.]
Crews are working on the “final mile” to link the Steel Valley Trail to the Three Rivers Heritage Trail that will deposit GAP …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/04/18/closing-the-gap-for-bicycle-touring-the-great-allegheny-passage/
Work has finally begun in Arlington on the last 1-mile interruption of the Centennial Trail as it rolls for some 30 miles from downtown Snohomish to the Skagit County line.
The construction on 67th Avenue Northeast should run off and on throughout the year and into early 2014. Crews started installing fencing and opening parts …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/04/16/centennial-trail-missing-link-construction-begins-in-arlington-bicycling-detours-available/
It may not always look like it, but the Seattle area has had below average rainfall so far this year.
One result is today’s early reopening of mountain biking trails at Tiger Mountain State Forest.
When I was out there last month to ride out to Poo Poo Point on forest roads, the trails were …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/04/04/mountain-bike-trails-on-tiger-reopen-today/
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