Kirkland’s Active Transportation Plan – seeking comments
The City of Kirkland Public Works Department has a new draft of More People, More Places, More Often, A Plan for Active Transportation for which they are seeking comment. The plan highlights are available as an overview or you can download the full draft plan weighing in at 7 MB.
Please visit the City website for details on this extremely detailed draft. Your comments are welcome and should be sent in by January 31st:
By E-mail: dgodfrey@ci.kirkland.wa.us
By Phone: 425-587-3865
By Letter: City of Kirkland Public Works, 123 5th Avenue, Kirkland 98033
In Person: At one of the meetings scheduled below. All meetings are at City Hall. Please check links below for more information:January 8 - Planning Commission, 7 p.m.
January 14 - Park Board, 7 p.m.
January 20 - City Council Study Session, 6 p.m. Comment at the Council meeting that starts at 7:30
January 26 - Houghton Community Council, 7 p.m.
January 28 - Transportation Commission, 6 p.m.
A final draft is scheduled for release in February and adoption of the plan is scheduled for March.
More People, More Places, More Often is an update to the 2001 Non-motorized Transportation Plan. The City of Kirkland Transportation Commission is responsible for submitting a plan to Council for approval.
Posted by Rob Butcher on Monday, January 5, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Filed under Transportation · Tagged with Bicycling, Public Works, Transportation
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As much as I cherish the BNSF corridor as a trail (and would use it), it is a far too important piece of land “not to use for mass transit” these days. With I-405 congested, I’ve always envisioned the great alterantive in a well functioning “track system (light rail or trains, does not matter) that links Snohomish/Monroe with communities on the Eastside, all the way to Renton – there connecting to the ST light rail system as well as Amtrak.
A transit system can be built and operated wisely and relatively cheaply on this corridor, a corridor that passes almost all major population/employment centers on the Eastside.
As for a Cross Kirkland Trail, much of it already exist, some along sleepy streets, some through wooded areas. Some effort is still needed to patch the pieces together.
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