Will the city urge WSDOT to assess a Madison-Park-to-SR-520 bike connector in the SR-520 environmental impact assessment? The connector was in the Trans-Lake study all along until a few NIMBYs, masquerading as citizens concerned about wetlands, started complaining about the idea. It's a logical, short connector to build to the planned bike lanes on SR-520 from their easternmost touchdown in Seattle. Lake Washington Boulevard, which starts not far from there, is the most historic and among the most family-friendly bikeways in Seattle. For the past 40 summers, Bicycle Saturdays and Sundays have brought families on bicycles to a carfree Lake Wash Blvd corridor on select summer weekend days. In 2002, a full 32,000 people participated. The connector is a logical commute corridor too, for Eastside workers and residents to and from downtown Seattle or residential neighborhoods in mid-city and all points south. Seattle: Just have WSDOT study the thing. That's what the EIS process is for -- that's how you'll know whether the connector will be environmentally impactful or not. And it always seems perplexing and ironic that in no road-widening EIS is the environmental impact of the actual transportation that the new facility will induce ever considered.
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