収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0.6 – 1 November 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.6a.

This release reflects a two-week intermittent closure of the Sammamish River Trail in Woodinville, showing an UNOFFICIAL detour. It also shows the newly extended bike lanes on 124th Ave NE in Kirkland (up to NE 124th St, yes, same number different direction), and an update to the extended closure of Kirkland Central Connector through at least the end of November for emergency sewer line repair.

At least that one has a signed detour.

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If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because honestly it doesn’t.

Enjoy biking!

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Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0.4 – 3 October 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.4.

There are major additions in Seattle with the opening of two south Seattle routes (SODO to Georgetown, Georgetown most of the way to South Park), but the big alert is that the Central Kirkland Connector is closed from NE 68th to 108th Ave NE for emergency sewer work. This will probably be a two week project. Detours are posted both in person and on this map.

Here’s the complete changes list:

• WARNING: CKC southern segment closed for emergency sewer repair. Detours are posted.
• ADDED: SODO to Georgetown connection along 6th Ave S, Alaska, and Airport Way S. This isn’t technically done yet but it is open and people are actively riding it, so I’m adding it.
• ADDED: Georgetown to South Park connection along Albro, Ellis, and E. Marginal Way, with existing bike lanes on 16th Ave S. More work is pending, via technically separate projects rolling out in early 2026.
• ADDED: Significant changes to “commonly used” routes in eastern Mountlake Terrace, western Briar, and even a little NE Lake Forest Park as people find ways to the Mountlake Terrace light rail station. Thanks to @[email protected] on Mastodon for pointing this out, I hadn’t noticed the shift yet.
• ADDED: More people on bikes means more “commonly used” routes in Bothell worth having on the map, so multiple such routes have been added.
• REMOVED: Final warning notice on Juanita Drive near Juanita Bay. The housing construction that has been extending into the roadway isn’t 100% complete but it’s close enough, it should be good.
• REMOVED: The warning notice on the Interbay Trail near Terminal 9. The “bridge over nothing” (or “bridge to nowhere”) which two decades ago went over a driveway is finally gone, much like the driveway, just much much later.

All permalinks continue to work.

If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because honestly it doesn’t.

Enjoy biking!

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Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0 – 4 August 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.1.

Mostly small updates this time, but one in particular is very important, and another is pretty important if you’re in Shoreline:

• ADDED: Alaskan Way Connector linking Elliot Bay Trail to Waterfront Trail with fully separated bikeways. Decades in the making, finally here (MEGAMAP only)
• ADDED: Painted bike lanes on Meridian Ave N in Shoreline between 155th and 175th streets (both maps)
• ADDED: “Commonly used” markers on Meridian Ave N throughout Shoreline (both maps) – this is somewhat aspirational, as there has been use of this road as a secondary to tertiary bike arterial but not quite enough to justify marking it as such until now. I am fairly certain that the new bike lanes in the middle of the route will increase its utility enough to justify it (both maps)
• ADDED: “Commonly used” makers on a section of Fremont Ave in Shoreline, because that section is used a little more than parts of Meridian which now carry that marking, and one should be consistent (both maps)
• ADDED: A weird little section of bike path I found in Lynnwood north of 196th at Wilcox Park. As 196th loses its sidewalks in that area, even this standalone oddness serves a useful purpose if you’re having to sidewalk-bike on 196th, say, to get to Gregg’s Cycles (MEGAMAP only)
• ADDED: A few more street names in City of Seattle, along with a couple of small adjustments on difficult streets (both maps)
• CORRECTION: REI Lynnwood’s icon was placed very slightly left of its actual location, and has been adjusted (MEGAMAP only)

All permalinks continue to work.

If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because honestly it doesn’t.

Enjoy biking!

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Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.8.0 – 8 June 2025 – is now available on github, along with MEGAMAP 1.7.1. This version is mostly, but not entirely, about Seattle.

Seattle DOT have dropped a new bike map for 2025/2026, but have chosen to show several incomplete and/or entirely unstarted projects as completed. We respectfully disagree with this decision, as it will direct map users to infrastructure which is not actually present for most or all of this year.

Therefore, we have chosen to stay with Seattle 2023 as our Seattle-area base map. We will take on the additional work of updating it over the next year, continuing work we have already been doing. In addition to not showing incomplete/nonexistent infrastructure, this means we will continue to group “Neighbourhood Greenway” and “Healthy Street” under the same common green colour, rather than separating them into green and blue markings.

(Seattle 2025 breaks them out into greens and blues, but unfortunately at the same intensity, meaning there’s no difference for those with colour vision limitations.)

As additional Seattle projects are completed, we will add them to our maps. Once all projects shown on Seattle 2025 are completed, we will most likely transition to Seattle 2025 as our Seattle base map.

There’s only one change since 1.7.1 for outside Seattle, but it’s big:

• Juanita Drive bike lanes are finally open (again) in Juanita! There’s still a little construction on sidewalks, but functionally, they’re done

I’ve been looking forward to that finally being finished since they started work! The bike lane standard is meaningfully higher than it was before. It’s not consistently up to Kenmore’s standard, but it’s a significant and welcome improvement.

Note that sidewalk construction isn’t quite complete, but there’s very, very little left and should not interfere with biking the route.

Updates since 1.7.1 in Seattle include:

• 1st Ave NW neighbourhood greenway north of Greenwood to Broadview added
• S. Walden/Della neighbourhood greenway added
• Ashworth Ave mix of neighbourhood greenway and ped/bike shared path added
• N. 120th St. neighbourhood greenway from Ashworth Ave to Corliss Ave added
• N. 130th St. bike lanes north of Haller Lake added
• W. Marginal Way SW bike lanes extended north to 17th Ave SW
• 6th Ave NW steepness indicator in Fremont corrected
• 6th Ave NW Neighbourhood Greenway corrected (was marked as bike lane)
• Alki Drive/Beach Drive SW Healthy Street in West Seattle added
• Maple Leaf Reservoir Neighbourhood Greenway and related ped/bike path added
• Pike Street bike lane hillclimb over I-5 updated to reflect upgraded status
• 21st Ave Greenway/Health Street from Columbia to Yesler added
• Greenway/Healthy Street connection between 30th Ave S east of MLK to Mountains-to-Sound Trail added
• 39th Ave South Greenway/Healthy Street from south of Othello to Kenyon added
• One block of Neighbourhood Greenway on 27th Ave NE north of Lake City REMOVED
• Several small corrections/adjustments, carrying forward Seattle map corrections/adjustments

Rather than the usual MEGAMAP preview, here’s a comparison between on section of Seattle across the two maps.

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If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t.

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Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.7.1 – 1 June 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 1.7.1.

Additions and changes since 1.7:

• Extension of bike lanes in Kenmore on 80th Ave NE up to NE 185th/186th street – this is new paint, done because they could; they also made their own city bike map;
• Refinement of intersections with streets on Interurban Trail North in Snohomish County;
• Small additions (short bike lane, shorter trails) around Totem Lake;
• Small addition (short mixed-use trail, pedestrian first but bikes permitted) in northern Woodinville at 130th/132nd;
• Addition of north bike exit from Shoreline North 1 Line station – possibly part of the Trail Under the Rail system? It’s not signed as such but it’s in the right place for it;
• Text cleanup in Redmond, replacing/moving certain street name text which gets cut off on the Greater Northshore map so that it is no longer cut off.

All permalinks continue to work.

If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t.

Thank you! ^_^

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Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.6.1 – 3 May 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 1.6.1.

This release wasn’t supposed to happen yet – arguably at all, the next was supposed to be 1.7 – but I mislabelled a couple of blocks of split sharrow/bike lane in Snohomish County as full both-sides bike lanes and that’s not okay. I had to get that fixed, and I have, so: new maps drop. Corrections are in all latest maps, of course.

Additions and changes since 1.6:

• Correction of errors on 48th West in Snohomish County, where sharrows had been incorrectly shown as full bike lanes across a couple of blocks where only one side has full bike lanes
• Added bike lane markers for Forbes Creek Drive in Kirkland
• Further cleanup of the trail situation in and around Crestwoods Park, Kirkland
• Added Old Market Street Trail in Juanita
• Added continuation notes showing how far infrastructure continues on the MEGAMAP’s northern border

All permalinks continue to work.

If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t. If you have an iPhone, please use the website interface and not the app, because Apple takes 30% if you use the app. I’ll keep doing this regardless, but you know. Thank you! ^_^

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Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.6 – 18 April 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 1.6.

Additions and changes since 1.5.1:

• Large expansion north to Lynnwood City Centre and rail station across all of SW Snohomish County
• Extension of Interurban Trail in Edmonds to 78th Place West reflecting new construction
• Improved street labelling, mostly in SW Snohomish County
• Route indicators at map edges describing past-map continuations to destinations such as UW and City of Snohomish

All permalinks continue to work.

If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t. If you have an iPhone, please use the website interface and not the app, because Apple takes 30% if you use the app. I’ll keep doing this regardless, but you know. Thank you! ^_^

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I’ve got an alpha of the Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map posted in a temporary location. [EDIT: There’s now a Beta. Use that instead!] It extends the map northward to Lynnwood City Centre, tho’ not all the way up to Alderwood Mall.

If you have any knowledge of southwestern Snohomish County biking, give it a look? I’ll get up to Mountlake Terrace to catch a train and I’ve biked the Interurban and North Creek trails pretty far up, but that’s it, and is nothing like on-the-ground knowledge.

The uploaded version had to be trimmed at the bottom a little to stay on 11×17 paper with one-quarter-inch margins. Here’s what the full thing looks like; I’m honestly a bit up in the air about what to do about this. Staying on a single row of tiled 11×17 strikes me as kind of important.

(Just because I happen to have some 11×17.625″ paper for reasons doesn’t mean most people do, because ALMOST NOBODY DOES lol)

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Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.5.1 – 8 March 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 1.5.1.

Additions and changes since 1.5:

• Additional labels in Lake Forest Park aiding navigation to Mountlake Terrace Light Rail Station
• Final section opening of the Waterfront Bike Trail in Seattle (Opening Ceremony is today (March 8th) and there are events downtown, go enjoy if you can)
• Clarified warning signs on mostly but not quite complete bike lanes on 15th Ave S. in Seattle
• Honey Dew Creek Trail (paved section) and connection routes added in Newcastle/Renton

All permalinks continue to work.

If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t. If you have an iPhone, please use the website interface and not the app, because Apple takes 30% if you use the app. I’ll keep doing this regardless, but you know. Thank you! ^_^

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While putting up the latest Experimental Megamap 1.5.0, I found the old printed Megamap 1.0.0, and thought I’d do a side by side of the first and latest experimental versions. It was so short! And so sparse! “Unmarked but commonly used” didn’t even exist as a category yet. So there’s much more data now.

(1.0.0 wasn’t officially called experimental, but it was – at least as a printed poster. I learned from it, particularly things like “how to stitch together a poster this big.”)

I realise this is probably the sort of comparison best saved for an anniversary post, but given where we are and the state we’re in, who even knows where we’ll be or be headed by May, right? So let’s do what we can while we can, and to hell with anything else.

And who knows. By May, maybe I’ll have that next mile of Snohomish County added in. It’d be nice, wouldn’t it?

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