Comments on: The big bike commute - part 1

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 06:50:16 +0000

Good stuff! Your commute really makes me apreciate my commute from the East Side of Mercer Island to downtown Seattle. With the nice (dry) winter we’re having I’m also becoming a four-season commuter for the first time.

Anyway, it’s late and I digress.. I like to go East once in a while and connect with the Preston trail and then the John Wayne trail but the area between Factoria and the Plateau is where I needed help and tips. I’m going to try the scary tunnel to the hidden connector way next time. See you on the (I90) trail, Clydesdale Andy with the big yellow Lemond

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 18:37:48 +0000

Thanks for posting this! My wife and I just biked around the lake, and we would have been terribly lost without your site. We needed to get from Marymoor Park over I-90 to the Burke Gilman. I’d read a bit about the I-90 trail, but had no idea where to find it. We followed your route from the French-American school - having a picture of the connector trailhead really helped. And then the Scary Tunnel - thanks for the warning about the rain gutters! Got a little confused by the gas station (left and quick right), then loved the downhill. And, again, your pictures saved us, because there’s no way we’d've found the trail by Richards road without looking for the “cryptic” wrong way sign. But we did, and the rest of the way was pretty easy.

So, THANK YOU for posting the pictures, the directions, the warnings, and for the general humor/enthusiasm of your site!

By: Hans

Hans — Sat, 05 Jul 2003 17:08:35 +0000

Very nice! I’ve thought about doing a write up similar to yours for my commute. It’s also funny (or sad) that several of your commute problems are the same as we have here in San Francisco and Marin county.

Thanks for motivating me.