The City of Bellevue Transportation Department launched Safe Speeds Bellevue last year with the aim of improving road safety and supporting our Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious-injury collisions on city streets by 2030.

The purpose of the Safe Streets Bellevue program is to make streets safer for everyone who uses them by evaluating streets for speed limit reductions and speed management. Crashes at lower speed limits are less forceful and are less likely to result in a fatal or serious injury. Lower speed limits have been shown to reduce the speed people drive, especially high-end speeds, and have resulted in fewer overall crashes and fatal and serious injury crashes in cities across the US.

In the first phase of the program, we evaluated speed limits for all city streets with a current speed limit of 30 mph or greater and reduced the speed limits on four corridors. Across all four corridors, we saw a significant reduction, ranging from -19% to -42%, in high-end speeding (the number of people traveling 40mph or higher). In addition, we conducted community outreach through surveys, in-person events, presentations, and resource sharing. We heard interest in prioritizing speed limit reductions and speed management in areas where people are walking and biking, such as school zones and commercial areas, as well as corridors where deaths and serious injuries have occurred.

To learn more about Safe Speeds Bellevue, visit our project webpage at BellevueWA.gov/safe-speeds.

We want to hear from you!

In this second phase, we are conducting public outreach about the proposed speed limits on Bellevue’s streets with a posted speed limit of 30 mph or higher. Please take our survey, open now until March 31, 2026.