Ship Canal Trail, Phase II

Ship Canal Trail, Phase II

Updated June 20, 2008

Project Status:
A tentative agreement has been reached with an adjacent business regarding relocation of its utilities for the trail. This means the project can move to the construction stage, which consists of three distinct elements: utility relocations, railroad track relocation and crossing construction, and trail construction. These must be done sequentially and the first two depend on timely action by the railroad.

Schedule:
Once BNSF permits are obtained, the utility relocation phase can move forward. We are hopeful this can take place in the 3rd or 4th quarter of this year. That will be followed by BNSF track relocation and crossing work, and then SDOT will construct the trail. At this point, trail construction is unlikely to begin before 2009.

Brief description of project:

This is the long-awaited extension of the Ship Canal Trail, which will eliminate a critical missing link in Seattle’s Urban Trails System. The project will construct about 3/4 of a mile of multi-use trail along the south side of the Ship Canal beginning at 6th Ave W (where Phase 1 ends) and terminating near Fisherman’s Terminal where it joins the Emerson Street bike path. Once completed, the Ship Canal Trail will make it possible to bicycle from Redmond to downtown Seattle almost entirely on dedicated bicycle facilities.

For more information about the project, please contact Stuart Goldsmith, Project Manager, Seattle Department of Transportation, by phone (206) 615-0860, or via email at stuart.goldsmith@seattle.gov.

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