Safe Speeds Bellevue
Earlier this year, the city’s Transportation Department launched a new program called Safe Speeds Bellevue. The goal of Safe Speeds Bellevue is to improve road safety and support our Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious-injury collisions on city streets by 2030.
In the first phase of this program, we’re reviewing speed limits on all city streets that currently have a speed limit of 30 mph or more and determining where lower, safer speed limits are needed. Our goal is to make Bellevue streets safer for everyone who uses them. Lower speed limits improve safety by reducing braking distance and improving the ability for people driving to recognize and avoid potential conflicts. This means crashes are less likely to happen. If crashes do happen, lower speeds have less force which means they are less likely to result in someone dying or being seriously injured.
We’re starting with 30+ mph streets because while these streets are only 25% of Bellevue’s street network, they account for 88% of crashes where a person is killed seriously injured. Safe speed limits will be determined based on how the street is designed and how it’s used by people walking, rolling, bicycling and driving.
To learn more about Safe Speeds Bellevue, visit our project webpage at BellevueWA.gov/safe-speeds.
We want to hear from you!
During this review phase, we want to know what you think about speeds in Bellevue. How safe do you feel on these higher speed limit streets? What areas of the city should we focus on first in our review and for future speed limit reductions? Please take our survey, open now until September 30, 2025.
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