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10-02-09, 01:40 PM
A car-centric city that is an eastern suburb of seattle and boomtown city in its own right is adding an ambitious bike and pedestrian transportation network to their capitol improvment plans.
With its six-lane roads, free shopping-center parking and winding neighborhood streets, the city of Bellevue was designed with the automobile foremost in mind.
In the 1950s and '60s, when Bellevue boomed, those wide arterials were meant to speed the family breadwinner from the suburbs to jobs across the lake.
and the plan is to develop a bike roadway infrastructure based on sound FHWA planning recommendations by developing identified bike routes into a viable bike network that aims to encourage greater bike use while enhancing safety for all road users.
article, hopefully, Here:a map but not the article (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2009/10/02/2009989452.pdf)
and the article (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009985018_bellevuebikes02m.html)
With its six-lane roads, free shopping-center parking and winding neighborhood streets, the city of Bellevue was designed with the automobile foremost in mind.
In the 1950s and '60s, when Bellevue boomed, those wide arterials were meant to speed the family breadwinner from the suburbs to jobs across the lake.
and the plan is to develop a bike roadway infrastructure based on sound FHWA planning recommendations by developing identified bike routes into a viable bike network that aims to encourage greater bike use while enhancing safety for all road users.
article, hopefully, Here:a map but not the article (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2009/10/02/2009989452.pdf)
and the article (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009985018_bellevuebikes02m.html)