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Originally Posted by mhays
It's pretty hilly and much less connected to the areas across the water. Bellevue is reasonably easy to get to, but only for a short distance. The rest is a long way from a hilly island to a hilly opposite side. It's also only about 1/6 the size of Manhattan.
Also it only became ocean-accessible after the Lake Washington Ship Canal was built, along with the Ballard Locks.
The perimeter road makes a nice bike loop though.
Even getting to Seattle required I-90 to go through a tunnel to avoid Mt. Baker (the hill/neighborhood, not the mountain). Thankfully the expansion 20 years ago added a bike lane also through the hill.
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I thought it was 13 sqM.? If so, that's roughly half the size of Manhattan at 23 sqM. And like Manhattan, they could have done some infill along the perimeter, presumably all the dirt from those hills.