Extension of bike lanes in Kenmore on 80th Ave NE up to NE 185th/186th street – this is new paint, done because they could; they also made their own city bike map;
Refinement of intersections with streets on Interurban Trail North in Snohomish County;
Small additions (short bike lane, shorter trails) around Totem Lake;
Small addition (short mixed-use trail, pedestrian first but bikes permitted) in northern Woodinville at 130th/132nd;
Addition of north bike exit from Shoreline North 1 Line station – possibly part of the Trail Under the Rail system? It’s not signed as such but it’s in the right place for it;
Text cleanup in Redmond, replacing/moving certain street name text which gets cut off on the Greater Northshore map so that it is no longer cut off.
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Move Redmond have also expanded their core area further north. Online, they’ve started doing the Seattle thing where they have some infrastructure information outside their region.
I’m not including their extended area at all, and I’ve also only extended their core map very slightly further north. There are a few reasons, the biggest of which being that we have features they don’t, and I think those features are important in lower-density infrastructure areas like north Kirkland and north Redmond. Without them, Briar wouldn’t have any markings at all.
They’ve also left me with a bit of a quandary: they’ve changed their map key on me. The markings are different, now. Fortunately, only a little, but it’s still a change.
In their area, fully separate bike paths are now dark green, rather than red. Given that I specifically used their key system – before expanding upon it – for consistency, I should probably go along. But to be honest, I don’t like the change. I think it adds confusion, because before, all bike infrastructure was red. Now most is red, but some is dark green, instead.
All one colour was simpler and easier.
On the other hand, having now three different systems – two of which are only very slightly different to each other – is more confusing than having two, and I could fix that.
Any thoughts on what I should do? Should I move to theirs, despite not liking the change? I’m genuinely uncertain.
Anyway, additions and changes since 1.6.1:
MAJOR EASTSIDE UPGRADE with the freshly dropped 2 Line Eastide Bike Connector Map. There are several updates, but the biggest are the two light rail stations opening today, 10 May 2025. If you’re reading this on the 10th, there are opening day celebrations and you can go join them.
Notes about infrastructure continuance off-map now appear on both Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP, with the notes and arrows relocating as appropriate.
Same for the two major directional notices to Alderwood Mall and City of Snohomish, both of which are too far north for this map.
Addition (with reservations) of a short section of what are technically bike lanes in Woodinville. I don’t like them and have marked them as undermarked, because they are.
Construction on NE 132nd has extended bike lanes! And made the crossing of I-405 more confusing and probably slower! But also maybe safer despite that. It’s a tradeoff, and it’s on the maps now.
NE 116th in Redmond has extended bike lanes now, but without the added complexity of 132nd.
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This release wasn’t supposed to happen yet – arguably at all, the next was supposed to be 1.7 – but I mislabelled a couple of blocks of split sharrow/bike lane in Snohomish County as full both-sides bike lanes and that’s not okay. I had to get that fixed, and I have, so: new maps drop. Corrections are in all latest maps, of course.
Additions and changes since 1.6:
Correction of errors on 48th West in Snohomish County, where sharrows had been incorrectly shown as full bike lanes across a couple of blocks where only one side has full bike lanes
Added bike lane markers for Forbes Creek Drive in Kirkland
Further cleanup of the trail situation in and around Crestwoods Park, Kirkland
Added Old Market Street Trail in Juanita
Added continuation notes showing how far infrastructure continues on the MEGAMAP’s northern border
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Large expansion north to Lynnwood City Centre and rail station across all of SW Snohomish County
Extension of Interurban Trail in Edmonds to 78th Place West reflecting new construction
Improved street labelling, mostly in SW Snohomish County
Route indicators at map edges describing past-map continuations to destinations such as UW and City of Snohomish
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I’ve got an alpha of the Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map posted in a temporary location. [EDIT: There’s now a Beta. Use that instead!] It extends the map northward to Lynnwood City Centre, tho’ not all the way up to Alderwood Mall.
If you have any knowledge of southwestern Snohomish County biking, give it a look? I’ll get up to Mountlake Terrace to catch a train and I’ve biked the Interurban and North Creek trails pretty far up, but that’s it, and is nothing like on-the-ground knowledge.
The uploaded version had to be trimmed at the bottom a little to stay on 11×17 paper with one-quarter-inch margins. Here’s what the full thing looks like; I’m honestly a bit up in the air about what to do about this. Staying on a single row of tiled 11×17 strikes me as kind of important.
(Just because I happen to have some 11×17.625″ paper for reasons doesn’t mean most people do, because ALMOST NOBODY DOES lol)
I’m finally expanding the Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP the extra mile or so into Snohomish County as I’ve been promising. This expansion gets users to Edmonds and Lynnwood Town Centre – including the light rail station – so there’s some real meaning to it. In the east, it’ll eventually be important for the expansion of the Rail Trail, too.
Sometimes, tho’, when you’re doing stuff like this, you discover something. That happened tonight.
Check out this incomplete little map section-in-progress. There’s something to infer from it:
The crossings of Highway 99 at 208th and 228th have weight. Cyclists use them, even where the infrastructure stops short of the highway. They’re okay with both.
But they don’t use 220th. That’s fine – 220th interacts badly with I-5 not much further to the east, and has no infrastructure east of Highway 99 anyway. Of course they don’t use it.
212th, on the other hand, doesn’t have those problems. Infrastructure on both sides, even if a little short on the east. No I-5 issues.
And yet, people DO NOT WANT TO CROSS there. They REALLY don’t. They want to go half a mile or more out of their way north and cross at 208th, or a mile and a half out of their way south and use 228th instead.
It’s very specific to the crossing, too. They do use the infrastructure on 212th, on both sides. It lights up on the heatmaps, nice and bright.
But they don’t leave it. They don’t cross 99. Not there. They go north. Or maybe south, but mostly north.
And I can’t for the life of me tell you why. Not from looking at the maps I have. The intersections at 212th and 208th seem much the same to me, even from streetview. Infrastructure’s a little more complete at 208th, but not all that much – what’s half a city block between friends?
And yet.
People who bike there, they know something. Something I don’t, and something I can’t see on a map or from a satellite.
Clarified warning signs on mostly but not quite complete bike lanes on 15th Ave S. in Seattle
Honey Dew Creek Trail (paved section) and connection routes added in Newcastle/Renton
Screenshot
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With this version, the Greater Northshore Map has adopted our MEGAMAP’s former Empty Quarter, previously a basically empty paste-in of King County Regional Trails. It is now a peer map section with Greater Northshore proper, City of Seattle, and 2 Line Eastside Bike Connector.
There may not be a lot down there, but what’s down there is now properly mapped and included.
Additions and changes since 1.4.6:
ALL OF NEWCASTLE, as far as I know. Thanks to Kerry Sullivan (City of Newcastle) for help on unpublished but completed new May Creek Park Drive bike lanes
NORTHERNMOST RENTON, including substantial upgrades to Lake Washington Loop route markings, particularly street names for the chunk where it’s just bike lanes
New-to-me bike lanes around 100th Ave W. in Edmonds, now mapped
Upgrade to 15th Avenue S bike lanes in the Seattle map – they now have physical separation. There’s a warning flag because they’re still intermittently being worked on a little? But as far as I can tell they are generally open.
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So I got my first note on the blog’s bike map contact page, which is amazing, and they threw me some info about the bike lanes on Coal Creek Parkway in Newcastle being usable.
Now, that’s not part of my map, right? That’s a chunk of King County Regional Trails, put in the MEGAMAP pretty much just to solve a blank space on the poster and complete the Lake Washington Loop. I had literally considered just filling it with a giant infobox before deciding that was stupid.
I’ve looked at trying to fill it in since then, because it’s so sparse and so empty. The problem has been that I don’t have anybody down there, or even any indication of interest… until now.
Are you down there? Get me the info. Help me out. I do not want to have to try to do this entirely via satellite views. That would suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Mercer Island, too! If we’re gonna do this we should fukken DO IT
Addition of a “Difficult” label on Power Line Trail
Removal of a bike store icon in Roosevelt and 84th
Addition of fully-separated bike lane on 11th Ave NE from 47th to Ravenna, and on 12th Ave NE from Ravenna to NE 69th
Waterfront Trail: Yesler to Union section now open
Eastlake from Fairview to John now has separated bike lanes, with more to come
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Changes since 1.4.3 (since I apparently never posted about 1.4.4 here?! so you get a double-dose):
The full long-term remapping of Montlake Boulevard at SR-520 with the new bike/pedestrian bridge. It was supposedly going to be soft-open today, with opening ceremony tomorrow (14 December) but it’s not open yet and landscaping clearly isn’t done. I think it’s open enough for tomorrow but I suspect there will be landscaping-related closures. (MEGAMAP only)
New Safe/Neighbourhood Greenway streets in northern Lake City (already open; Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP)
Improved bike lanes/partial off-street lanes in Redmond on 152nd Ave NE north of NE 24th St. (already open; MEGAMAP only)
Yet another correction to Seattle’s map showing NW 125th between Interurban and Aurora as sharrows, not bike lanes (thank you, @pruwyben@social.ridetrans.it) (Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP)
Construction warning flag removed with the end of Burke-Gilman repaving in Bothell (Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP)
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This is a surprise snap release due to a month-long construction closure of Sammamish River Trail through downtown Bothell, a major commuter route. There IS A DETOUR, and it is appropriately signed, but since this is a big closure it should be flagged on the map.
Also, some of the small bike parking icons were too small, so I have made them larger, and threw in a couple of other small cosmetic improvements mostly involving text.
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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
Now incorporating the southern mile-ish of Snohomish County! The idea was 2km but some places it’s barely over a mile. Either way, that means yes, we further enGreatered Northshore, because the actual Snohomish County map is absolutely a trainwreck.
It’s mostly for the Interurban North and North Creek trails but not just that.
Also new since map set 1.2:
Construction warnings with dates! At least the ones I know about, which means Juanita Way. They’re widening the bike lanes but that means there aren’t bike lanes sometimes while they work.
…and it didn’t work out, mostly because not to put too fine a point on it but the Community Transit bike maps for Snohomish County are not good. I have fundamental issues with how their legend is defined but that’s only part of it – even going by the letter of their bad-idea legend, it’s often very wrong in bad ways.
Which is a damn shame because 1) it would’ve been glorious and 2) it would’ve been nice to have a bike map that goes all the way to Skagit County, I mean damn. But I’m not going to put something out that leads people into danger like that, I don’t care if it is official.
So I pulled the bottom two kilometres (roughly) off the bottom of their county map using SNOGIS and brought my OWN map. With my OWN legends. And heat maps!
I’m not posting them to the official site yet, these are betas. I’ve got reduced-size versions on Amazon but they lose a lot of resolution due to their sizes. Still, if you want to get the general idea:
Genuinely curious about thoughts – particularly if you’re in southern Snohomish County, in which case I need your BRAIN. Or the contents thereof, that would do.
I mean, there are two important and very real separated trails heading up there, one of which I’ve explored lately though only in part, the other of which I had no idea went so far. I think it’s important to have visibility on those. They both go places that matter – Interurban goes all the way to Everett and does so via Alderwood Mall, and North Creek goes all the way up to the core of Canyon Park, a big employment area for Snohomish County and Bothell.
Plus, for people who live on the very upper border of North King County, it seems reasonable to me that they’d want some north-facing data too.
It does make the maps even bigger, though. I mean… sure does. lol
Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP Bike Maps version 1.2.2, Mid-June 2024, dropped at the usual place. This is a very minor release.
I don’t see any substantial updates for the next few months; we’re as up-to-date as I think I can get. There is, however, some relevant new construction that falls into the Greater Northshore area, and that’ll get reflected as it comes online.
Changes:
Added “Very Bumpy” note near Shoreline Interurban Trailhead
Added start of bike lanes and “To Interurban Trail North” above that
Extended fully-separated lane one block east in northern Shoreline after in-person verification
Corrected types of routes (red-dash vs. green-dot) around Lake Forest Park Town Centre to more accurately reflect Burke Gilman-Interurban Trail connector signage
Extended North Creek Trail a little into Snohomish County to indicate it continues
Housemate printed my map in tiles across eight sheets of 11×17 (roughly A3) paper and I cut them up and glued them together into a poster and got it hung. I’m really quite pleased with it. ^_^
I probably need a proper bike icon for Dreamwidth now – I write these in WordPress, it’s Federated so it goes to the Federation but it also cross-posts to Dreamwidth because that’s how I roll, and it still has per-post user icons which I kinda miss in general. ^_^
Okay, I’m calling it: RC1 is Release Version 1.2 of the MEGAMAP, the combined bike map including Greater Northshore, complete Seattle (the “complete” part of that is new), and 2 Link Eastside maps, with also a little chunk from King County Regional Trails to get us all of Lake Washington without leaving a big void presumably labelled “Here There Be Dragons, And Also Renton” as a warning.
The map be LORGE but it also be FAIRLY COMPLETE as bike maps go of Northwest King County, except ironically for the little KC-maintained section. But what that does buy you is the last section of the Lake Washington Loop. So I think it’s worth it.
Anyway, go download, hopefully this is the last update for a little bit. It should be. If I hear of new infrastructure I’ll probably slip in some quiet updates, but it’ll be less of a production – no Beta or RC releases or any of that. Just moar bieks. ^_^
Just because King County doesn’t do a detailed bike map anymore doesn’t mean they aren’t still doing their regional trails map
WHICH THEY ARE
And I can USE THAT if I don’t have anything ELSE. And since even King County Regional has the East Rail Trail South, that not only lets me use all of Seattle but gives me a full Mercer Island and a complete Lake Washington Loop.
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