Detours

So it’s interesting (although obvious, I guess) that the places where there are problems with navigation and with the quality of the trail are the places where for one reason or another it has been diverted from the old interurban railroad right-of-way.  Rail roadbeds make good bike trails.  When the roadbed gets cut by a …

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The Jayhawks – Cover Songs Vol. 2

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Interurban South

The interurban trail in South King County is not interesting or particularly scenic – it is straight as an arrow between the railroad tracks and the back of various warehouses from I-405 in Tukwila down past SR 167 and SR 18 to 3rd street in Algona Pacific.  It is almost perfectly flat, though, and the part …

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3-18-06 article

East Lake Sammamish Trail trail finally opening March 18, 2006: Full story By Sonia Krishnan Seattle Times Eastside bureau The long-awaited, long-fought opening of the East Lake Sammamish Trail has finally arrived. After nearly a decade of litigation, 11 miles of an abandoned railroad bed open Tuesday as a public trail. It connects Redmond to …

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