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Bellevue Transit Plan Update
Washington State ITE 2001 Annual Meeting
June 11, 2001
East King County Service Area
Downtown Bellevue Growth
60,000
35,000
22,300
10,6005,372
79,000
0
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
Population, 1970 - 2020
9,151
3,622
1,1821,010374
14,291
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
Employment, 1970 - 2020
Coordination with Metro & Sound Transit
Bellevue Transit Plan
Service Element
Capital Element
Policy Element
Metro Sept 01 Service Change
Metro 6 Year Plan Update
Sound Transit Annual Plans
Winter
2001
Spring
2001
Summer
2001
Fall
2001
Winter
2002
Spring
2002
Summer
2002
Subject to change pending resolution of fare proposal.
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Changing Transit Service Structure
Pre-1995 Future Network
“Continuing decentralization of population and employment in King County has
decreased travel to Seattle in general and downtown Seattle in particular and has
resulted in the rapid growth of suburb-to-suburb and intra-community trips.”
King County Metro, Six-Year Transit Plan (1996-2001)
Evaluate service options & outline six-year implementation strategy.
Bellevue Transit Plan Service Element
System Concepts
• Hours of Operation
• Service Frequency
• Service Area Coverage
• Directness of Service
• Travel Time
Service Strategies Market Conditions
Evaluate Existing Conditions
Define Service Goals &
Objectives
Evaluate Future Conditions
Stakeholder Interaction
Ideas
Network Options
Community-based routes
Eastside routes
Regional routes
Current Transit Services
Hours of Operation
•Weekday services tend to be limited to
peak hours.
•Mid-day & evening service is poor.
•Weekend service negligible all times.
Service Frequency
•Largely 60+ minute - resulting in
lengthy waits.
Service Area Coverage
•Access limited or absent in many parts
of the City.
Current market conditions necessitate
transit service improvements ...
Hours of Operation
• Weekday services tend to be limited to peak hours; mid-day and
evening service is poor.
• Bus schedules do not match school schedules (Bellevue schools out
by 12:30 on Wednesdays).
• Weekend services are negligible at all times.
• All-day service needed on 116th for access to medical offices.
Service Frequency
• Eastside routes have over-loaded buses; people are turned away.
• More service is needed to ensure that missed transfer connections do
not result in 60+ minute wait times.
Findings
Despite past success, transit services need improvement
Findings, continued
Service Area Coverage
• Access is limited or absent in many parts of the City.
• Bus stops in Bellevue are too far of a walk in many areas.
Directness of Service
Poor connections:
• Between neighborhoods
• Neighborhoods and Downtown Bellevue
• Other Eastside destinations
Travel Time
• Transfers require additional time and make transit less attractive.
Bellevue - Bellevue 2010 Person Trips
Key Markets (10,000 + Person Trips)
• E Bellevue - Overlake = 18,800
• S Bellevue - dwntn Bellevue = 18,400
• Bridle Trails - Overlake = 16,600
• N Bellevue - dwntn Bellevue = 15,400
• Bel-Red Northrup - dwntn Bellevue = 14,800
• Northeast Bellevue - Overlake = 13,600
• Crossroads - Overlake = 13,500
• Bel-Red Northrup - Overlake = 13,100
Bellevue - Eastside 2010 Person Trips
Key Markets (10,000 + Person Trips)
• Redmond non-CBD - Overlake = 65,600
• Kirkland - dwntn Bellevue = 43,200
• Kirkland - Overlake = 39,300
• Redmond non-CBD - dwntn Bellevue = 15,700
• Renton - dwntn Bellevue = 14,800
• Medina,Clyde Hil - dwntn Bellevue = 11,700
• Sammamish - Overlake = 11,000
Bellevue - Regional 2010 Person Trips
Key Markets (10,000 + Person Trips)
• Pierce County - Overlake = 21,300
• Pierce County - dwntn Bellevue = 21,000
• Snohomish County - dwntn Bellevue = 16,900
• Snohomish County - Overlake = 15,200
• South King County - dwntn Bellevue = 14,900
• Medina,Clyde Hil - dwntn Bellevue = 11,700
• North Seattle - dwntn Bellevue = 11,500
• South King County - Overlake = 10,500
• South Seattle - dwntn Bellevue = 10,300
Bellevue - Bellevue
• Improved downtown circulation vis-à-vis the distributed service network.
• Improved access vis-à-vis frequency and routing between Bellevue neighborhoods
(e.g., East Bellevue, SE Bellevue, Crossroads) and Activity Centers (both P&R lots
and community centers).
Bellevue - Eastside
• New connection between Kirkland & downtown Bellevue (Overlake Hospital).
• Enhanced connections between Kirkland and Redmond to Overlake employment.
• Improved access between Renton & downtown Bellevue.
• Improved access between Issaquah & downtown Bellevue.
Bellevue - Regional
• Enhance off-peak period frequencies to connect with all-day regional services.
• Eliminate duplicative regional service.
Serve Bellevue with urban quality transit service and establish a route
network for future improvements.
Bellevue Transit Network Vision
Improving Connections in Bellevue
More service - Issaquah
& Bellevue.(Rt 271).
Provide SE Bellevue
with access to transit
system (Rt 928).
Direct E. Bellevue
dwntn service (Rt 272).
Faster connection
between to Overlake via
Bell-Red (Rt 233).
frequent two-way
service to Redmond (Rt
232), & frequent
Crossroads connection
(Rt 249).
Provide frequent all-day
connection between
Crossroads & Factoria,
does not exist (Rt 926).
More direct service
between Factoria &
downtown (Rt 222).
Improved access to
Overlake Hospital &
increased frequency to
Kirkland (Rt 234).
All-day service Kirkland
& Overlake (Rt 239).
Direct Factoria & E
Bell. service (Rt 923).
Frequency Improvements in Bellevue
5 - 10 Min 11 - 15 Min
Peak Hour Frequency Off-Peak Hour Frequency
Downtown
Factoria
Eastgate/BCC
Overlake
Crossroads
Downtown
Factoria
Eastgate/BCC
Overlake
Crossroads
Neighborhood & Eastside Access
• Greater access to activity centers
from route extensions.
• More frequency to facilitate
convenient transfers.
• Improve routing to enhance
neighborhood access.
Regional Coordination
• Enhance frequency during off-
peak periods to connect with all-
day regional services.
• Eliminate duplicative regional
service
Serve Bellevue with urban quality
transit service and establish a route
network for future improvements.
Recommendations within Bellevue
Lessons Learned
Completed project successfully, on-time & below budget …
• Undertook early examination of data in-house - To expedite the
process, the City had in-place an early understanding of the problems
needing to be addressed by the consultant team.
• Clarified project direction before work began - Held pre-scoping
design/build meetings prior to contract initiation to identify
opportunities and challenges of scope and timeline of project.
• Created a collaborative planning process - Entranco, Perteet, Transpo
Group, and Browne & Associates each assigned to specific work
assignments & encouraged to collaborate in sharing of ideas.
• Developed realistic recommendations - List of solutions are
financially constrained and technically defensible.
• Articulated transit vision - City’s goals & objectives are better
represented in guiding KCM’s service planning process.
Service plan
• Evaluate existing & future markets
• Evaluate existing services (span, frequency, coverage)
• Recommend approach for new investment
Capital plan
• Identify infrastructure improvements to improve transit travel
time & reliability (signal priority, ped/bike connections)
Policy plan
• Consider policy directions to unify transit and growth decisions
Bellevue Transit Plan Approach