Tag: bellevue

February 2, 2018

Cascade: Bellevue City Council set to decide on downtown bike lane pilot Monday + How you can help

The Bellevue City Council will decide Monday whether the city will move forward with a demonstration protected bike lane on 108th Ave NE downtown, a first for Seattle’s biggest Eastside neighbor. The city’s Transportation Commission voted 5-2 last month in favor of the demonstration project, giving the bike lane a good head start going into…
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tagged: bellevue, cascade bicycle club
January 10, 2018

Cascade: Support Bellevue’s downtown bike lane plans Thursday

As we reported previously, the City of Bellevue plans to build one or more demonstration bike lanes in its downtown core this spring as a pilot project to try out the design and give people a chance to see them in action. Since announcing the concept, 108th Ave NE has emerged as the single best…
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tagged: bellevue, bellevue transportation commission, cascade bicycle club, vicky clarke
November 15, 2017

Bellevue plans to pilot game-changing downtown bike lane (or two)

Downtown Bellevue could be biking laps around downtown Seattle if it wanted to. Not only is downtown Bellevue much flatter than Seattle, the Eastside city’s streets are very wide, which makes them primed and ready to host a network of protected bike lanes. With the 520 Bridge Trail nearly open (WSDOT will only say “after…
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tagged: 106th ave se, 108th ave se, bellevue, bellevue pedestrian & bicycle implementation initiative, Main St, NE 2nd St
September 11, 2017

Bellevue considers bike share permits, take their survey today

With thousands of bikes already in operation in Seattle and construction on a second cross-lake bike trail wrapping up in just a couple months, the City of Bellevue is considering its own permits to allow private bike share companies to operate on their streets. As Seattle’s biggest nearby neighbor, Bellevue is a key launching point…
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tagged: bellevue, bike share
June 2, 2017

Using machine learning to predict traffic collisions in Bellevue (and how you can help)

The City of Bellevue, the UW and Microsoft just launched a fascinating machine-learning effort to analyze traffic danger and identify collision locations and conditions before they happen. But they need your help marking-up segments of video to identify people walking, biking and driving so the Video Analytics Towards Vision Zero program can better determine the…
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tagged: bellevue, Franz Loewenherz, microsoft, uw, video analytics towards vision zero, vision zero bellevue
February 27, 2017

Bellevue officially approves funding to start ‘rapid implementation’ bike plan

Amid all the other giant issues on the November ballot, it may have been easy to miss the news that the people of Bellevue approved a transportation measure that includes funding to kickstart a renewed effort to get their bike network plans back on track. The city’s “Bicycle Rapid Implementation Plan” is based on Bellevue’s…
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tagged: bellevue, cascade bicycle club, Franz Loewenherz, vicky clarke