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Safer bikes, faster buses with new bus platform
To make its downtown demonstration bike lane safer and speed passage for bus riders, the City of Bellevue has added a new kind of bus stop – a platform between the bike lane and vehicle traffic.…
Snowflake Lane, Magic Season
The Bellevue Magic Season begins its annual run downtown on Friday with a holiday parade taking over busy Bellevue Way, between Northeast Fourth and Eighth streets, for one hour nightly. Visitors…
Metro launches new shuttle service in Eastgate
King County Metro announced Wednesday it will launch a new mobile app to hail on-demand shuttle service to and from major transit hubs throughout the region, starting Oct. 23 with the Eastgate Park-…
Get ready for Walk to School Day on Oct. 10
Students, parents and teachers at several elementary schools in Bellevue will stride together on Wednesday, Oct. 10, for the annual Walk to School Day. The event encourages safe walking, healthier…
New sidewalks for new school
It’s not every day that a new elementary school opens in the Bellevue School District. In fact, there has not been a new, non-replacement, school since 1972. That all changed when Wilburton…
Electric vehicles take center stage at Sept. 11 event
If you’re interested in learning more about electric vehicles, check out the National Drive Electric Week event on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 4-7 p.m., at the south end of Downtown Park, 10201 NE Fourth St…
School year begins Thursday; walk and drive safely
When students in the Bellevue School District start school on Thursday, Aug. 30, there will be some new traffic patterns to accompany the district’s first brand new (non-replacement) school in 46…
Northeast 12th Street closed, ped bridge damage
Due to structural concerns involving an older pedestrian bridge downtown, city workers closed Northeast 12th Street, from 108th to 110th Avenue Northeast, at 7 p.m. today while crews stabilize the…
Bellevue pilots electric-assisted bike share
In addition to seeing more green-painted bikeways in Bellevue, starting this week you’ll see more green bicycles as part of the city’s one-year bike share pilot. Bellevue’s is the first bike share…
Celebrate city’s first downtown bikeway July 31
The first bike lanes running the length of downtown Bellevue are up and accommodating riders. Now it’s time to celebrate (video).
The Downtown Demonstration Bikeway on 108th Avenue is intended to…