We’re advocating for a safer and more connected Wilburton.
Fewer car crashes
Safer intersections
Protected bike lanes
Connections to Link light rail stations and Eastrail
East Link and Eastrail will redefine Bellevue — maximizing these investments is critical.
The new light rail line will connect Bellevue to Seattle in 19 minutes, and Bellevue to Redmond in 10 minutes.
Eastside cities are already working together on a 42-mile corridor for bikes and pedestrians — and it goes right through Wilburton.
Expanding bike access to both these investments will provide safe and easy connections to businesses and surrounding neighborhoods.
Protected bike lanes will improve safety on one of our most dangerous roads…
116th Avenue NE, looking north
…but the current proposal
doesn’t go far enough.
NE 4th St, looking eastbound
The Eastrail bike path intersects the road at the top of the hill.
Safer for Everyone
Wilburton’s 120th Avenue NE is on Bellevue’s high injury network, a collection of streets with a high concentration of severe injuries and deaths. Improved signage, sidewalks, crossings, and bicycle infrastructure will make sure that Wilburton is safe for all users, regardless of age, mode, and ability.
Better Business
The science is clear: bicycle lanes are better for businesses. Giving people more ways to get to destinations outside of a car improves access overall, for both customers and employees.
Creating a Network
The usual approach of cities is to create small, piecemeal investments in biking, which leads to disconnected an underused infrastructure. Wilburton, however, is part of the greater Bike Bellevue network, aiming to plan out an entire biking network from the ground up.
Economical and Sustainable
Bellevue will already be repaving part of the route during a 2025 repaving project. By simply reconfiguring the existing right-of-way, we can get this project done with minimal cost and disruption — we need the City Council to approve this without delay.