I left my car at home and repeated one of my Metro-bus-access-to-the-trailhead hikes from several years ago. Took Metro 209 to the Preston R&R, crossed the freeway on the bridge and on the other side wandered 0.2 mi. on SE Preston Way going west to where the power line maintenance road goes uphill at a gate. Hiked on the power line maintenance road (very rough going on coarse rocks) to past the houses and a gate on the left and discovered a faint trail crossing the power line clearance and leading up into the woods. We had hiked the Preston Trail coming up from the D.O.T. Maintenance base and leading to the upper Preston Trail, the two Bootleg trails, East Tiger, and Dwight's Way many times and had always taken the second trail going left (which is soon crossing a creek once it enters the woods), but today I followed the less frequently traveled trail that goes past the backyard of a house and then for a short while follows what may once have been a steep logging grade. Then it goes straight up the fall line and joins the Preston Trail just short of where the Preston Trail makes a 90 degree turn at a sign that identifies the old road to the east as leading to PRIVATE PROPERTY. Today I followed Dwight's Way and the upper High Point Trail to the TMT and was surprised to see that the bridge over High Point Creek was CLOSED because it had been knocked off the foundations by falling trees. It is now leaning at an awkward angle such that you would not want to cross it when it is wet and slippery and part of the railing is missing. Even sitting on the east end of the slanted bridge while eating my lunch is uncomfortable. There are recent survey markers at the west end of the bridge wreck, indicating that something is planned -- maybe even a trail reroute so they can bring in heavy equipment? At the K3-TMT junction there is a sign stating that the eastbound trail beyond the sign is outright CLOSED and nobody was supposed to go behind the sign. Coming from Preston, there was no such sign when you come westbound on the TMT. The trail between the bridges is in good shape and the creek is easy to hop across. I was relieved to see that the other two bridges where still there, although the third bridge had also taken a beating from a falling tree that knocked off two of its railings. The high point of this section of the TMT is just west of Anschell's Allee ( Elevation gain 1230 ft. coming from Preston) and it descends from there to cross the cable line ("Boeing") trail and ends at the West Tiger 3 trail. Surprisingly, the cable line trail is roped off both uphill and downhill from the TMT due to exposed electrical cables and electrocution hazard. Don't they know how to bury a cable deep enough so nobody gets hurt? Not far from here, there are other electrical cables dangling above the ground paralleling High Point Trail, but I hope those are no longer energized! For my hike back to Issaquah, I followed the Bus Trail, Gas Line Trail, Adventure Trail and down the powerline trail to the orange artsy Tradition Plateau portal and the Metro 209 bus stop at the east end of Sunset Way to take the bus home.