With the bridge over nothing removed, the Terminal 91 Trail in Interbay reopens Thursday

Screenshot from a Port of Seattle video.

The skinny trail bridge over a driveway in Interbay that the Port of Seattle has not used for decades is now gone along with the various pinch points it created. The Port will reopen the trail on schedule Thursday morning (October 2), one month after the closure began.

Reopening the trail is great news for folks who have been dealing with a poor detour route for the past month that put two-way trail use on one skinny sidewalk on the Magnolia Bridge. It also required using a spiraling ramp with tight turns that are not particularly comfortable to ride for all users.

The reopened trail is at ground level, and the Port says the space for the trail will be widened to remove the old choke points where only one person could fit at a time. This is a significant improvement to the Elliott Bay Trail, which became a lot more useful when the downtown waterfront bikeway opened. We won't see the trail in its full glory until the Myrtle Edwards Park remake project (Elliott Bay Connections) reopens all the park paths, likely next year. Until then, people walking and biking will share a single path. It's certainly usable, but you gotta be patient because there are often a lot of people.

Watch workers tear down the old trail bridge (though I don't know why they keep calling it a bridge to nowhere" when it definitely went places. It was more like a bridge over nothing"):