kinda getting into it

[solarbird]

Y’know, I really should ask Housemate Paul for a new set of printouts for the entryway bike Megamap, but at this point I’m kinda getting into the cut-and-paste update aesthetic? So maybe I won’t. At least, not until the next set of light rail stations open in a few weeks (EEEEEEEEEEEEE SO EXCITE) and they get added on. I might do it then.

Or not! I dunno. Maybe I’ll just keep pasting on until parts start falling off. Which they will! It is inevitable. xD

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[dewline]

Map design can be fun, right?

[solarbird]

Oh yeah, I quite enjoy this. When we have money again, though, I do want to get a good single-sheet printout of this. Maybe twice a year? Dunno. Pasting a bunch of 11x17 sheets together is kind of a pain in the ass.

[wrog]

The Thing I Didn't Realize Until Recently with western Bothell is that there's really a mountain range there running N-S, and you can see it along 522 along the Sammamish as the road (and everything else) gets all twisty and goes up with cliffs on either side and then goes back down very much like it's going through a pass (may not seem all that tall but 200-500 ft elevation gain is plenty enough to affect school bus schedules in winter and call it a "mountain" in NJ) and that 522 is where the Sammamish was able to punch through, much like the Delaware Water Gap. Probably has something to do with why there aren't any towns between Bothell and Kenmore (cf. why the boundaries simply Growth-Management-Act-expanded until they met). It gets more obvious as you go south towards the Juanita part of Kirkland (cf. why there are no roads that go through from 100th Ave westward until you get to the lake).

[solarbird]

Kenmore is basically two big N-S hills / east-coast mountains, with a third just past the boundary as you note in Bothell. There's the one on the western boundry separating Ballinger from 61st Ave NE, and the one that exists both going up north of downtown (on the east side of 61st Ave NE) and and south of downtown/Bothell Way. That flat area between exists only because it was a big flood plain back in the day.

(And by "back in the day" I mean during the glacial melt floods.)