Pedestrian & Bicycle Count Report

Bellevue’s Transportation Department measures trends in walking and bicycling traffic across the city. This data provides insights into where, when, and how many people walk and bike in Bellevue and how that changes over time. It also offers one way to evaluate the impact of infrastructure investments in the city’s network of walkways and bikeways.

The Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan 2009 identified 11 priority bicycle corridors (five east/west, and six north/south) comprised of existing and proposed bicycle facilities that provide general bicycle mobility throughout the City. These cross-city bike corridors create a continuous network that promotes connections to surrounding jurisdictions and creates links among communities within the City. The following north/south and east/west routes are designed to provide direct links between major nodes throughout Bellevue, including commercial, employment, institutional, residential, and recreational destinations.

• East-West Corridors: (i) EW-1: 520 Trail; (ii) EW-2: Downtown-Overlake Connection; (iii) EW-3: Lake-to-Lake Trail; (iv) EW-4: Mountain-to-Sound Greenway; and, (v) EW5: Coal Creek-Cougar Mountain

• North-South Corridors: (i) NS-1: Enatai – Northtown Connection; (ii) NS-2: Lake Washington Loop Trail; (iii) NS-3: BNSF Trail Corridor; (iv) NS-4: Somerset-Redmond Connection; (v) NS-5: Spirit Ridge-Sammamish River; and, (vi) NS-6: West Lake Sammamish Parkway

Pedestrian and Bicycle Progress Report is a summary of the pedestrian and bicycle progress made from 2009 to 2023 as part of Bellevue’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation Plan 2009.

The improvements were funded as stand-alone projects, through ongoing capital programs such as the Neighborhood Safety, Connectivity, and Congestion Levy, Neighborhood Enhancement Program, the Overlay Program and through the Development Review Process. Some facilities were constructed by WSDOT or Sound Transit.

This interactive map presents the data collected by automated counters located along off-street multipurpose paths and on-street bike lanes.

The first counters were installed in 2015 on the I-90 Trail and SR-520 Trail. Another counter was installed on the Eastrail in 2018, and more than a dozen additional counters were installed in bike lanes in 2019. More counters are planned.

Bicycle counters work by detecting the metal in bicycle wheels as they pass over the counter. None of these counters collect photos, video, or any personally identifying information.

This interactive map presents the data collected by automated counters located along off-street multipurpose paths.

The first counters were installed in 2015 on the I-90 Trail and SR-520 Trail. Another counter was installed on the Eastrail in 2018.

Pedestrian counters use a thermal sensor to detect the heat of a human body passing by. None of these counters collect photos, video, or any personally identifying information.

The summary graphs below are based on bike count data collected from 14 bike counters installed by the City of Bellevue in the summer of 2019. The data covers full years from 2020 to 2023.

Bicycle ridership was highest in July (14%) and lowest in December (3%).

Half of the annual bicycle ridership occurred between May and August, with each month in that period averaging 12% of total yearly ridership.

Bicycle ridership peaked on Saturdays (18%) and was lowest on Mondays (12%).

34% of bicycle ridership occurred on weekends, with Saturdays and Sundays averaging 17% of total ridership each.

66% of bicycle ridership took place during the workweek, with each workday averaging 13% of total ridership.

28% of bicycle ridership occurred between 3pm and 6pm, regardless of the day of the week.

The highest levels of bicycle ridership at COB counters were observed at 114th Ave SE (14%) and 118th Ave SE (13%), followed by 116th Ave NE and W Lk Sammamish Pkwy SE (11% each).

The lowest levels of bicycle ridership were observed on Lake Hills Blvd (2%), followed by Richards Rd and Newport Way (3% each), and Main St (4%).