MTB's in the heart of Seattle

[mimitabby]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20070329/450colonnade05_cover.JPG

Mountain-bike club reclaims a wasteland

By GREG JOHNSTON
P-I REPORTER

Week by week for the past 18 months, a band of local mountain bikers has turned a dark and scary concrete-covered urban dead zone -- where perhaps the most popular activities were shooting drugs or chugging cheap wine -- into a place where regular people actually might want to go.

After a volunteer work party, members of the Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club ride the trail system they're constructing in Colonnade Park under Interstate 5 in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood.

Members of the Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club are carving out an urban mountain-bike course at one of Seattle's newest parks, I-5 Colonnade, which opened late in 2005 under the freeway in the Eastlake neighborhood. .. snip...

read the rest of the article here!

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/getaways/309155_colonnade29.html

[Fredwina]

Neat-o!

[KnottedYet]

I've driven by that a few times. It's pretty cool, they've done a nice job.

[LBTC]

That is truly awesome! What a fabulous way to take back some space from evil!!! I am seriously impressed!!

H&B
~T~

[IntenseRide]

I have seen this happen here in Minneapolis, returning an downtown park frequented by drug users into mountainbike trails. Its amazing what happens when people come together to create something that involves motion and passion. This is awesome!

[East Hill]

I haven't had the joy of seeing it yet, but it certainly looked pretty good from the photos.

East Hill

[dex]

I wait for the bus to go to work every morning right by that park. It's pretty freakin' cool...to look at, I mean. I've never used it.