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Jan
23

Closing the Eastrail gap – reference materials

Supporting materials for King County's application for a RAISE grant to close the gap on the Eastrail by building a building a trail section and bridge over Interstate 90, connecting Bellevue and Renton.
  1. PSRC, VISION 2050; Per the US Census, the 2022 King County population is approximately 2,266,000. The PSRC projects an additional 872,000 residents in the next 25 years, which is a growth rate of approximately 38%.
  2. Key strategies for Vision 2050 are summarized in the VISION 2050, Summary Booklet
  3. Demographic Trends of King County
  4. PSRC, Regional Transportation Plan (2022), page 69
  5. PSRC, Regional Transportation Plan (2022), page 108
  6. PSRC, Connecting the Dots for Regional Transportation (2021/2022), page 7
  7. PSRC, Regional Transportation Plan (2022), page 9
  8. Idax Traffic Counts, collected on behalf of the City of Bellevue, October 2023
  9. City of Bellevue, Vision Zero
  10. City of Bellevue, Collision Stats (2009-2020); The sum of total pedestrian/bike collisions city-wide between 2013 and 2020 is 651.
  11. Is It Dangerous to Bike on a City Sidewalk? | TekWay | StrongGo - Tactile Warning Systems
  12. PSRC, Connecting the Dots for Regional Transportation (2021/2022), page 7
  13. PSRC, Regional Transportation Plan (2022), page 159
  14. PSRC, Regional Transportation Plan (2022), page 8
  15. Washington State Department of Ecology, Greenhouse Gases
  16. Biennial Update of King County's 2020 Strategic Climate Action Plan (2023) (SCAP), page 18
  17. Esri, 2023
  18. Trails as Resilient Infrastructure - American Trails
  19. PSRC VISION 2050, page 24
  20. Regional Transportation Plan 2022-2050 (psrc.org), page 58
  21. Understanding socio-demographic factors associated with shared-use-paths (SUPs) utilization - ScienceDirect (generate formal ref.)
  22. Regional Transportation Plan 2022-2050 (psrc.org), page 58
  23. Strava 2024
  24. American Trails, 2023
  25. PSRC, Regional Transportation Plan (2022), page 18
  26. PSRC, Regional Transportation Plan (2022) page 64
  27. PSRC, Regional Transportation Plan (2022)
  28. Replica, 2023
  29. The estimated time savings for trail users was provided by the City of Bellevue, 2024
  30. King County Park's Proposed Title 7 Changes
  31. Strava, 2023
  32. King County Priority Hire Program
  33. PSRC VISION 2050, page 34
  34. World Economic Forum, 2019
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