Tag: bellevue

June 25, 2024

$25M federal grant will help cross final major Eastrail hurdle: I-90

King County has secured a $25 million federal RAISE grant to rehab an old railroad bridge over I-90 that had been one of the few major pieces still missing from the Eastrail route. The funds will also build and pave 1.7 miles of the trail in the I-90 area and “create safe connections” to the…
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tagged: adam smith, bellevue, claudia balducci, dow constantine, eastrail, king county parks, maria cantwell, patty murray, raise grants, renton, sarah perry, suzan delbene, woodinville
June 17, 2024

NE 8th Street Eastrail bridge opening June 23

The Eastrail’s NE 8th Street bridge near Wilburton Station in Bellevue is scheduled to open at noon June 23 (Sunday). As we noted when the station first opened this spring, the bridge is a key link to an area that “seems destined to play a special role in connecting biking and transit on Eastside.” Once…
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tagged: bellevue, eastrail, eastrail partners, king county parks, ne 8th street bridge, wilburton station, wilburton trestle
June 3, 2024

Best Side Cycling: Are these Eastside bike lanes really among the worst in the U.S.?

No, they are not. Sorry for the spoiler. Don’t get me wrong, the Coal Creek Parkway bike lanes in Bellevue, Newcastle and Renton are not sufficient for the road conditions. As you can see in the Best Side Cycling video, the road is too fast and busy for a skinny paint-only bike lane to provide…
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tagged: 2nd ave, bellevue, best side cycling, coal creek parkway, dexter, everett, king county traffic safety coalition, mlk way, momentum magazine, mukilteo speedway, newcastle, paine field, renton, worst bike lanes
April 30, 2024

Wilburton Station is destined to be a major bike/transit hub of the Eastside

To celebrate Sound Transit’s 2 Line opening over the weekend, my kid and I biked across the 520 Bridge to a station that seems destined to play a special role in connecting biking and transit on Eastside. The newly-opened Wilburton Station is basically part of the EasTrail. The connection for trail users is seamless, easy…
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tagged: bellevue, eastrail, sound transit, wilburton station, wilburton trestle
April 23, 2024

A new Eastside bike map just dropped

It has been a long time since King County stopped maintaining a bike map. Seattle releases their updated map every year, but it ends at the city limits. But folks biking on the Eastside are mostly left to cobble together route info from wherever they can find it. That’s why I have been very excited…
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tagged: 2 line, bellevue, bike map, kelli refer, kirkland, move redmond, oran viriyincy, redmond, sound transit
March 29, 2024

Bellevue Council torches their Vision Zero plan, refuses to stand against unfounded attacks on city staff

The news out of the Bellevue City Council this week was extremely disappointing. The council decided to backtrack on their Vision Zero commitment and all but toss out most of the Bike Bellevue network that was developed over a period of years following significant public outreach and study. In the process, they also left their…
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tagged: bellevue, bellevue city council, bike bellevue, conrad lee, dave hamilton, janice zahn, jared nieuwenhuis, john stokes, lynne robinson, mo malakoutian, vision zero bellevue