The long road to the Foothills Trail South Sound rails-to-trails project moves along, but some supporters grow frustrated ROB TUCKER; (Published in the Tacoma News Tribune on August 6, 2006.) Many South Sound residents have long dreamed of a paved walking and biking trail connecting Mount Rainier National Park to Tacoma and on to …
Home stretch for Foothills Trail But Pierce County’s plan to close final mile-long gap upsets landowners MIKE ARCHBOLD; The News Tribune Published: June 18th, 2007 01:00 AM Pierce County is closing in on the last two properties that would put the South Prairie-to-Buckley segment of the Foothills Trail into public ownership. The two properties constitute …
Preliminary deal reached to turn rail line into trail By Keith Ervin Published in the Seattle Times on February 26, 2007 King County, the Port of Seattle and BNSF Railway executives signed a preliminary deal this morning intended to turn the 40-mile Renton- to- Snohomish rail line into a recreational trail. The trail would be …
Rail-to-trail plan sparks debate over Eastside line By Keith ErvinSeattle Times staff reporter The BNSF Railway’s Renton-to-Snohomish line is in bad shape. Only one track runs along most of the 42-mile corridor. Its sharp curves, street crossings and deteriorating tracks force trains to keep speeds low — no more than 10 to 30 mph. When …
Reaction to trail swap spotlights manufacturing’s dwindling role on the Eastside Rail change: Will last factory turn out the lights? Published in The Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) – December 1, 2006 by Steve Wilhelm Staff Writer When local politicians recently proposed converting the Eastside’s rail corridor into a hiking and biking trail, …
Snohomish County Dreams Of Linking Trails A Step Closer Published in the Seattle Times on 11/9/06 By Diane Brooks Times Snohomish County bureau Leaders within the trails community fantasized for years about this 14-mile swath of railroad. Cutting south from BNSF Railway’s main line in Snohomish, the freight line runs through the Snohomish …
Dinner train may chug on to Snohomish Published in The Seattle Times on November 3, 2006 By Diane Brooks Times Snohomish County Bureau Eric Temple remembers cringing, with a guilty laugh, when he first heard "Almost Live" host John Keister’s quip on late-night TV, back in 1992 "I hear there’s a new dinner train," …
Let’s make a deal: Boeing Field for trails Published in the Seattle Times:October 25, 2006 By Alwyn Scott and Sharon Pian Chan Seattle Times staff reporters Call it the local land swap of the century — maybe. Under a deal many months in the making, the Port of Seattle would acquire Boeing Field …
BNSF rebuffs private offer By Keith Ervin Seattle Times staff reporter Published in The Seattle Times on July 18, 2007 KEN LAMBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES Chuck Mott is chairman of All Aboard Washington, which is fighting a county plan to tear up the tracks and install a trail. Sims wants to pick …
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