Advocacy Issues

Bellevue Releases Draft Bike Network Map

December 14 2007

The City of Bellevue is taking a renewed look at encouraging bicycling and walking to improve health, create clean neighborhoods, and boost its quality of life. With its "Walk and Roll 2007" program the Bellevue Transportation Department will be updating a 1999 plan intended to guide the city toward greater pedestrian and bicycle-friendliness.

In November 2007 the plan reached a significant milestone with the release of a draft facilities map. The Walk and Roll Draft Facilities Map shows a potential future network of bike lanes, trails, shared roadways, and other bicycle facilities. To view the map online, follow the link located below under the "Resources" heading.

Bellevue Transportation staff members have asked the community to provide them with feedback on the routes and facilities they're proposing. If you live or ride in Bellevue, please take a moment to send them your suggestions and comment, and be sure to include the following points along with your message:

• Ask Bellevue to pass a "complete streets" ordinance requiring that roads being built or repaired include accommodations for bicycles and pedestrians
• Tell them that cyclists need routes through downtown. While the draft facilities map currently proposes many routes that would bring cyclists to the edge of downtown, there are not enough routes passing through it to deliver riders to popular destinations
• Ask that the final network be integrated with Bellevue's transit hubs
• Encourage the completion of the Mountains-to-Sound Greenway

Send your comments to the Bellevue Transportation Commission at dcieri@bellevuewa.gov and CC the Walk and Roll project manager Franz Loewenherz at floewenherz@bellevuewa.gov.

Thank you.

Cascade Bicycle Club is also looking for Bellevue residents interested in helping to make the plan the best it can be. If you live in Bellevue and you'd like to lend a hand, call Patrick McGrath at 206-957-0689 to learn what you can do.

Resources

• Walk and Roll draft facilities map
• City of Bellevue Walk and Roll website
• Join the Bellevue Walk and Roll update email list
• Cascade Bicycle Club Bellevue Cycling Photos page - share your picture of Bellevue's best and worst bicycle facilities. Bellevue staff are monitoring the site and using the feedback to help craft the bike plan. If you have questions about how the photo-sharing web site works, email Patrick McGrath at patrick.mcgrath@cascadebicycleclub.org.

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