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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Okay, been pretty burnt out this week, so have a beta Version 1.6 bike map [Edit: Here’s the latest Maps Release, download this instead!]. The Greater Northshore now goes up to 200th in Snohomish County, and the MEGAMAP expanded edition will go up to 194th.
This marks the first time that the MEGAMAP edition expands both to the north and the south over the core map. Neat?
This further expansion north was prompted by actually biking up there a little more. if I really want to be able to say that I’m including Lynnwood City Centre, I have to go up to at least 200th, and really, should include both sides of 196th.
Unfortunately, going up to 194th on the smaller map would make it too big for casual printing purposes. But since 196th doesn’t have any sort of bike support, I figure I can leave it off that version.
Even so – even with only going up to 200th – I’ve had to trim a bit off the south in order to stay on my own 17.5″ tall paper. This matters because I really want to be able to print the smaller map on three sheets of paper, and not have to cut and assemble six page. But between very careful placement of text on the north edge, and the addition of a new category of conditional text along the south edge – placing words like “to UW via Burke-Gilman” and “Woodland Park Zoo” and “Redmond Town Centre” with arrows as appropriate – I think I’m managing to keep the usefulness at the about the same level.
I hope so, anyway.
As always, love some test reactions. Here’s the beta. I’ll be dropping a release pretty soon, so, idk, get it in while you can, and thanks.
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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While putting up the latest Experimental Megamap 1.5.0, I found the old printed Megamap 1.0.0, and thought I’d do a side by side of the first and latest experimental versions. It was so short! And so sparse! “Unmarked but commonly used” didn’t even exist as a category yet. So there’s much more data now.
(1.0.0 wasn’t officially called experimental, but it was – at least as a printed poster. I learned from it, particularly things like “how to stitch together a poster this big.”)
I realise this is probably the sort of comparison best saved for an anniversary post, but given where we are and the state we’re in, who even knows where we’ll be or be headed by May, right? So let’s do what we can while we can, and to hell with anything else.
And who knows. By May, maybe I’ll have that next mile of Snohomish County added in. It’d be nice, wouldn’t it?
Three months ago, I put up some vertical mini-flyers along the Burke-Gilman Trail in Northshore, pointing people to the Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map.
I’ve been keeping an eye on them and how they’ve held up, and today I brought them back inside.
For this first version, I trimmed right to the edge of the paper, and the pin holes went through the paper too. Then I used a tent waterproofing seal on the edges. The edges did not hold completely or even consistently; one failed almost immediately, but kept its integrity. The others failed less rapidly but nonetheless failed.
Despite that, the QR code and large text stayed legible throughout, and although the maps became very faded and/or washed out out over time, I think they’re still identifiable as maps.
i’ve put up new, bigger ones, six instead of three, and put them in the same places plus few others. They’re printed darker, and I kept plastic borders rather than being trimmed to edge with added waterproof sealant. The pins this time went through said borders, and not the paper.
I presume being printed darker will help with fading, and hopefully the heat-sealed laminate edges will improve the water resistance. But we’ll see over a few months’ time.
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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Lots of weekend landscaping work happening at the Montlake lid this rainy Saturday – it’s crunch time before the opening ceremonies that’re finally happening next week.
I will, naturally, be dropping a revised MEGAMAP the day before, this coming Friday afternoon or evening (depending upon scheduling). I’ll also be dropping an updated Greater Northshore since there’s some Seattle-area updates which show up in its coverage area as well.
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November 16th, 2023, was the day I started logging biking miles per hundred on Mastodon. I didn’t check the odometer on the date this year, but it would’ve been around 2940, which means totalling 1,440 miles (2,317 km) in the previous 12 months.
That works out to about 28 miles/45 km a week or 120 miles/193 km per month.
That’s more than Anna and I put on our car combined, which exists pretty much entirely for certain cargo-carrying purposes. Not too bad.
The weather’s pretty good today. Cold, but clear and dry. I should run by the hardware store, pick up some copper and steel wool.
If you don’t know this already, copper is incredibly good for scrubbing oven racks, because it’s softer than the rack metal but harder than food, so it really cuts through whatever might’ve got baked on without scarring the metal underneath.
It is absolutely the best way to clean an oven or toaster rack is what I’m saying. I suspect that’ll be an important tip for some of you today, or tomorrow, depending upon how prompt you are about scrubbing up. 😀
Anyway, like I said, it’s a nice day. Let’s go bike.
Most of this are changes in Seattle that won’t be showing up on their map for another couple of months, or whenever they finally release Seattle 2024. So GETCHER HOTTEST FRESHEST SEATTLE BIKE MAPS RIGHT HERE xD
Changes in 1.4.3:
Updating Juanita Drive construction area with a temporary downgrade to sharrow, recommending detour
Slope markers on the closest, most obvious detour route (NE 123rd, NE 132nd)
NEW BIKE UNDERPASS from Montlake to Bill Dawson trail is open, added to Seattle’s map
Additional sharrows in Kirkland near Mark Twain Park
New 6th Ave NW neighbourhood greenway in Fremont, yes I’m updating Seattle’s map for them again
Updating/clarifications around Montlake Boulevard at SR-520; it’s in flux but this is close
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Trying to figure out: do I drop one of the warning flags in the next bike map release? Specifically the one with the arrow here:
I was on the route today and it’s clear now, but the cones are still there, off the street. There’s no indication of immediate work but I don’t know why they’re still by the side of the road or even whether they’re public works vs. private landowners using them for other purposes. But the lanes are open there.
The north two definitely stay, and clearly will for months. That work is not going quickly. It’s far enough away from completion that I’m kind of thinking the bike lane markers should go away for now because they really are gone because of construction. They’re going to be put back – and put back improved – but they don’t exist now.
If I do replace them, I’ll replace them with sharrow because that’s the de facto reality on the ground now. They’re still part of the Lake Washington Loop and all that, but lanes? No, and they won’t be there for a while.
And dang, that is not a fun environment at this point.
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yeah I should drop them down to sharrow for now. Reality on the ground, not in the theory.
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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Three missing blocks of bike lane and sharow in Lake Forest Park
Two new blocks of bike lane near Shoreline South station
Most of the shoulder on Woodinville-Duvall Road is not officially bike lane, turns out one section between 156th and 171st is official, so added
I-405 in blue, which matched the colour used by 2 Line Bike Connector Map, was too easily confused with water so was changed to an intensity-matched grey
Other small cosmetic adjustments
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