Navigating Renton

As I've written before, my first time time through Renton I was irritated with the chaos I encountered simply trying to get from one major bike route (Lake Washington-east side) to another (Green River), essentially trying to go around the south end of Lake Washington.  The city literally sits in the middle of the two trails with little or no bike-friendly routes in-between.  I have no idea how this city was named one of Puget Sound's top ten bike friendly cities and have no idea why no one is taking the scorecard to task for the pick of this city.

Regardless of my dislike of this traversal, I do like biking around Lk. Washington, so I have had a few other occasions where I could try different routes each time to find the most bike friendly.  Here is my original traversal.  It was okay, but not very direct and had more interaction with heavy traffic than I like.  

Here is a possible favorite.  

It uses what bike lanes Renton does have (though which ends at a really bad point of heavy traffic), less utilized streets and sidewalks where necessary (S. Grady Way).

And here is an alternate which avoids the above mentioned bad traffic point.

There is probably a combination between this and the previous that should become my preferred route the next time I need to traverse the city.