Transportation Bellevue, Washington

i-405 seen ne 8th street overpass

bellevue main eastside hub both local transit authority, king county metro, , sound transit, regional transit system. bellevue transit center, serves both metro , sound buses, located in heart of downtown business district , connected interstate 405 ne 6th st. , direct-access texas t hov ramp. local buses run kirkland, redmond, issaquah, renton, , university district; regional buses go bothell, lynnwood, everett, seattle, renton, kent , auburn, among other cities.

the east link light rail line planned run seattle through mercer island , bellevue before ending in redmond. measure including , other regional road , transit projects went before voters on november 4, 2008 , approved.

the bellevue city council lobbied hard sound transit—a regional transit authority—to construct light-rail line underground through bellevue s rapidly growing downtown. bellevue promised devote between $104 million $150 million toward potential tunnel in form of cash, services, free access rights-of-way , one-time tax revenues result east link project. in november 2011, council signed agreement sound transit. tunnel construction started in 2016 while remainder of downtown bellevue construction began in mid-2017. former bellevue city council member claudia balducci member of sound transit board of directors.

the city of bellevue has undertaken extensive bel-red area transformation process seeks plan 900 acres (3.6 km) in northern portion of city, of premised on extension of light rail eastside under sound transit 2. top-down , highly integrated land use , transportation planning similar earlier planning downtown.

bellevue served railroad, burlington northern branch line known woodinville subdivision, included historic wilburton trestle. local freight line subject of debate on whether railbank line , construct multi-purpose trail. of march 2009, port of seattle had postpone acquisition of corridor because of instability in bond market. of 2016 line disused part of track bed @ wilburton station reused sound transit s light-rail construction.

the city once had operating air-field named bellevue airfield.