bicycle lane restriction on Alki trail

[jasper]

What’s with the multi-year repair being done to the sewer treatment system on the bicycle trail north of Alki shops? Wasn’t the entire beautiful Mt.Hood lodge built in a year or something? I find leaving the trail to ride on the road instead of walk my bike the length of the repair is very dangerous yet I do it anyway. Why such a long repair? Does anyone know?

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[WSB]

We have covered this multiple times here. This week includes a temporary closure of the bike/pedestrian path on the construction site, which we reported yesterday. Have no idea about the Mt. Hood lodge and how that would compare, but this is a huge underground expansion of the pump station. Stand by, I’ll add links as soon as I pull them out of our archives – TR

ADDENDUM:

This week’s report about the temporary path closure

https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=10710

some background in this post from when work started in winter

https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=5613

official project page

http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/projects/westseattle/53rdAvePS/

They’re about 7 months into what was billed as 20 months of work.

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[jasper]

I still don’t understand why so long… The entire Timberline lodge was also constructed in a two year span, albeit by more people I am sure but do you or the managers of this project understand how dangerous it is for bicycles to enter into traffic, northbound ones crossing the street against traffic, in order to continue bicycling through that area?

I don’t know what role you play in this but if you know why it is taking so long I am curious, especially each time I launch myself back into ongoing traffic on my bicycle. Getting off my bicycle and walking is also a major inconvenience; I can totally do it, that’s not the question, my question only is why so long? Are the parts difficult to procure? The design of the project incredibly complicated? Is there inpenatrable rock to dig through?…

Thank you.

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[JanS]

jasper…the editor on here just reports things. Maybe you should go to the source of the project and let them explain it to you. I would think that what they’re doing is fairly complicated, not a weekend job. Just a hunch. I bet MetroKC could give you the answers you’re looking for.

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