Advocacy Issues

What do you want on the BNSF Corridor?

Public Meetings Underway

Updated June 24, 2008

The Port of Seattle is holding a series of public meetings to judge the public's mood regarding the newly-acquired BNSF corridor. While all parties to the purchase agreement say they want rail-with-trail, there is still uncertainty about the final configuration.

Cascade Bicycle Club supports dual use. But if the upcoming rail feasibility study finds that rail transit it not currently supportable along the corridor, we believe that King County should be allowed to build an interim trail on the railbed, which puts the corridor into immediate public use while protecting it for future rail transit. That way, we could provide thousands of Eastside residents a clean, reliable, and inexpensive transportation option in just a few years.

Please join us at one of the Port's meetings. Tell them: we want dual use, but if rail's not feasible, build a trail right away!

Attend a meeting

Can't come to one of the meetings? Send an email instead.

Resources

• Example of rail to trail to rail-with-trail
• Port of Seattle letter to CBC Executive Director Chuck Ayers (April 25 2008)
• Open letter to the Port of Seattle Commissioners from CBC Executive Director Chuck Ayers (Dec 10 2007)
• PSRC's BNSF Corridor Advisory Committee's "Findings and Recommendation for Transportation Uses in the BNSF Eastside Corridor.” Approved January, 2007
  
  
• PSRC's HDR "BNSF Corridor Preservation Study" Published May, 2007
  
  
• Map of the corridor
  Includes six benchmark mileposts indicators for orientation.
  • Milepost 5, the southern-most end at the north end of Gene Coulon Park.
  • Milepost 11, roughly the site of the Wilburton Tunnel at I-405.
  • Milepost 17, Kirkland
  • Winery District = where the line passes by the concert lawn at the St. Michelle Winery
  • Milepost 25, in Woodinville, roughly where the northern end of an interim trail would start/end.
  • Milepost 39, the northern most end of this line acquisition in Snohomish County (located at Harvey Airfield in the City of Snohomish)
• Pictorial Storyboards
  From King Co’s November 2 press conference.
• The Connections for Our Future PowerPoint Presentation
  This details the evolution of the Connections for Our Future proposal from February of 2007 through late August.
• Puget Sound Regional Council's BNSF Corridor Preservation Study page
• What is Railbanking?

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