Controlling 520
By Bill Gobie
With the impending opening of the new bike trail across the 520 bridge, I reviewed our permanent routes to see which might need additional controls to prevent shortcutting across the bridge. Somewhat surprisingly, out of our 300+ routes, only ten are affected and each only needs one new control. The ten routes are:
757 Redmond to UW via Issaquah
758 UW-Issaquah
1015 Queen Anne-Everett-Sammamish
1514 Woodinville Trails
1801 Club Car Populaire
2795 Leschi-Hobart-Redmond Loop
2868 Common Trails
3065 Green Gold and Red
3226 Peddler Postdoc Redmond Start
3227 Postdoc Peddler Ballard Start
All of the routes are now fixed up with new controls. Some of these are popular routes. Some are ridden almost exclusively by one or two SIRs. If you are accustomed to riding any of these on autopilot, be on the lookout for the new control! Be sure you use the newest versions of the cards, route sheets, and gps files that the Perminator sends you.