Bellevue Transportation widened 124th Avenue Northeast, from Northeast 12th Street to Northeast Spring Boulevard, to five lanes. The new configuration provides turn pockets or a center turn lane, and a pedestrian and bicycle path on each side of the street, separated from vehicle traffic with a buffer. The department also coordinated with the Spring District and other developments in the area for the developers to provide bicycle and pedestrian facilities for the southbound lanes. Project construction was substantially completed in 2024. Developers are completing final stages of construction on the west side of the road which is anticipated to be completed in 2025.
Benefits
This project improves connectivity and circulation, support economic development and provide pedestrian and bicycle access to the new Spring District light rail station as well as implement facilities that are compatible with surrounding development.
Schedule
- Spring 2025: Final construction work on west side of 124th AVE NE
- Summer 2024: Project construction substantially completed
- 2017: Funding finalized through a Federal Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Funding
The total project budget is $21.3 million and will be partially funded through a federal TIFIA loan and Transportation Improvement Board.
Outreach materials
- Construction alert (December 2022)
- Updated construction alert (December 2021)
- Construction alert (October 2021)
- Roadway cross-section diagram
- Pedestrian-bicycle configuration
