Phil in SF quoted Biking Uphill in the Rain by Tom Fucoloro
Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bicycling magazine. …
After many months of waiting, the ICC sided with the trail committee, setting a precedent that public agencies should have the first opportunity to purchase abandoned rail rights-of-way for creating public parkland.
— Biking Uphill in the Rain by Tom Fucoloro (Page 286)
Reading about the creation of the Burke -Gilman trail is also pretty cool. Finding out that Seattle helped start the movement of rails to trails. It feels like the Burke has always been there, but it must have opened when i was a kid. My parents didn't talk politics or civics, so i was pretty much unaware of anything going on in the city.