Today's walk took me to the Pinehurst and Northgate neighborhoods. I started walking at NE 117th Street and Pinehurst Way NE and walked west and south covering streets between Pinehurst and I-5 from 117th to Northgate Way. The first thing I noticed was the absence of a cross walk at 117th which I thought was strange in a school zone. Then I spotted the bike lanes. As I walked north of Hazel Wolfe K-8 School, the sidewalks on 117th disappeared as soon as I crossed 12th Avenue but the bike route continued.

The traffic  island on 117th even showed the bikes the direction they should take around the island. 

Hazel Wolfe is in a new building; I think that Pinehurst Alternative School was  at this location 12 years ago. 

There are still some lovely single family homes in this area of apartments, condos and senior housing. As I got closer to I-5, which meant I was getting closer to the new Light Rail Station, I started to notice  4-hour limit parking signs.

Abutting I-5 and the Light Rail going in north of Northgate, the Latvian Church is still there and its property is still well kept in spite of all the construction going on around it.

Just south of the church is 116th, a Dead End street where houses were probably removed to make way for the Light Rail. It appears to have been redesigned by repaving the street and installing a sound barrier wall, a sidewalk and curb (on the the south side only) and a really tall utility pole with large transformer boxes.

115th also dead ends by I-5 but there is now a foot and bike path leading to 1st Avenue. I took it to 1st where I turned south only to find that the sidewalk quickly ended.

I came to Northgate Apartments. These garden apartments have been here for years and were affordable; I'm not sure that they still are. "Permit Parking Only" signs are prominently displayed. Walking around these apartments, I came to Northgate Way and could see some of the few stores leftover from the old mall. I didn't stay on Northgate Way long, turning north on 3rd Avenue. Passing quite a few apartment complexes (probably all over 12 years old), I came to a dead end but was able to walk around the barricade.

On 115th, just west of 5th sits this Seattle Public Utilities building. "Seattle Water Department" is written on the building but a sign on the door warns of "high voltage."

There is a large Day Care Center directly across the street but no sidewalks. There are a packed utility pole, a few metal structures with warnings of the presence of a gas pipeline and bike logos painted on the street.

About a block south, I ventured into Hubbard Homestead Park. It appears that work is underway in the play area. The vendor renderings look impressive. The park currently has a few trees, workout stations, one basketball hoop, a few benches and tables, what appears to be a fire pit (or at least what appears to have been used as a fire pit), a skateboard area and graffiti.

Working my way back to 117th and Pinehurst,  I passed a lot of senior housing,  Seattle Lamp First Presbyterian Church (12 years ago this was called Seattle First Korean Church) and ...

... the industrial looking Hazel Wolfe School. There is a cross walk at 115th.

On this 4 mile walk, I spotted Halloween decorations, a front yard with artificial turf, lots of limited parking signs, a "Senior X-ing" sign, an Ethiopian Market, two Little Free Libraries (containing Children's Young Adult and Adult books, text books and a blank journal), what looked like a Little Free Pantry (there was no sign but there was a can of food in it) and lots of bike routes.