So how difficult is this, really?

[solarbird]

So is there really pretty much just no way to get to Country Village in Bothell any way other than driving? Or is SR-527 safer to bike than it looks from its intersection with Bothell Way (SR-522) at Main Street in Bothell?

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[llachglin.livejournal.com]

I haven't done this exact route, but I've taken a lot of roads in the area. Looking at the map, you can go uphill on 61st until it becomes Locust Way, turn right on Lockwood (which becomes 73rd). Go left on 192nd, left on Meridian, and right on 240th. That takes you out to 527 a short block away from Country Village (take the shoulder against traffic, which I normally wouldn't recommend). It's a meandering route but not particularly long. There'd be an even quicker route all the way along 240th if its western end wasn't a gated community. Maps show that as connecting but it doesn't. I figured that one out the hard way.

It looks like you could save time by skipping 61st/Locust and just taking residential streets to 73rd, then head north to the right on 192nd. But the basic advice is to get yourself over to Meridian instead of going up 527. You could also take Locust to 228th but that's a busy road and it's got the single worst hill I've ever gone up on a bike. You have to be a masochist to go that way. There are other hills by my suggested route, but that's also true of 527.

[solarbird]

I was kinda thinking bus to Bothell then bike what's left. But yeah. I found that Meridian route and plotted it out on gmapPed, but the hill kinda skeers me with cargo. (And it was discouraging that I didn't really find anything around there on Bikely, either, which kind of implies it has more than its fair share of zomg.)

I should try it on a day that doesn't involve cargo. But then I don't know why else I'd go to Country Village, or, really, want to.

I'm still astounded there's no transit running up 527. Bothell needs to run a streetcar up that thing stat. And add a bike trail. (I checked the altitude changes, they're much less ph33rsome.) And while we're at it, I want a pony. ^_^

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Surely there's a bus that goes up 527? *pokes website* ... hm. Apparently not a direct one, which is sort of mind-boggling, but there is that big empty stretch, I suppose. But the 120 from the Bothell P&R wends its way past Country Village, supposedly in under 20 minutes.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

That's what TripPlanner (http://tripplanner.metrokc.gov) is telling me, take 522 (or 372) over to the vicinity of Bothell P&R, and change to the 120 Lynnwood. Takes a bloody hour on a Saturday, but there you go. May be faster weekdays...

[solarbird]

Surely there's a bus that goes up 527?
You would think, wouldn't you? And yet all the transits say HA HA FUXX0R J00 at me.

Yeah, I found the 120 route. But that's kinda nuts. Bothell should - and I'm 100% serious here - run a trolly line up that thing. For reals. And a trail. It's only 1.7 miles from downtown! Why should that take 20 minutes nang nang nang nang.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

There's that big fancy transfer station thingy at 405 and 527, which made me think "surely there are buses through here..." I guess all the folks east of 527 are more interested in hitting that before Country Village, which would be why it loops up and around, but dang.

I guess it falls to the city of Bothell because of the county line split. But such a trolley would be excellent.