For Commuters & Residents
Commuter Resources for Getting Around Bellevue
Whether you're traveling to Bellevue for work, school, or everyday activities, there are many ways to get around without relying on a single commute option.
Connect Bellevue helps residents and commuters explore transportation choices including transit, biking, walking, carpooling, vanpooling, and rideshare services. With the region’s growing transit network and expanding mobility options, getting to and around Bellevue has never been easier.
Plan Your Trip with These Tools
These trip planning tools make it easy to find the best route, track transit in real time, and explore different transportation options.
You can use these tools to compare routes, track buses and trains in real time, and plan your trip using transit, biking, walking, or ridesharing.
Transit
Transit is one of the easiest ways to travel to and through Bellevue.
The Bellevue Transit Center serves as a central hub for many regional bus routes, making it easy to connect to destinations across the region.
The 2 Line light rail also connects Bellevue with Redmond and Seattle, providing fast and reliable travel across the Eastside and beyond.
Fares
Light Rail (2 Line): $3.00
Bus: $3.00
Adult fare: $3.00
Youth under 18: Free
ORCA LIFT: $1.00 reduced fare
You can also pay using the Transit Go Ticket mobile app, and through Tap to Pay.
Bike & Walk
Walking and biking are convenient ways to travel around Bellevue, especially for shorter trips or connections to transit.
Bellevue continues to expand its network of bike lanes, shared-use paths, and pedestrian routes to make active transportation safer and more accessible.
Biking Resources
Walking Resources
Share the Ride
Ridesharing Options
Ridesharing can help reduce travel costs, ease congestion, and provide more flexibility for your commute.
Carpool
Carpooling allows multiple people traveling similar routes to share a ride.
Use RideshareOnline.com to find or start a carpool that fits your schedule.
Vanpool & Vanshare
Ride with others in a King County Metro van; keep the van at the driver's home (Vanpool), or take it to and from a transit hub to cover the first and last mile of your commute (Vanshare).
Carshare
Carshare services allow you to access a vehicle only when you need one.
Ride Hailing
Request a ride directly from your smartphone.
Choose Your Way Bellevue
Choose Your Way Bellevue is a program of the City of Bellevue that helps residents and commuters explore sustainable transportation options and discover new ways to get around.
Through the Choose Your Way Bellevue Rewards Program, commuters can earn rewards by logging non-drive-alone trips, such as transit, carpooling, biking, walking, or vanpooling.
Log 16 non-drive-alone trips (8 round-trips) and earn a $10 local coffee shop gift card while supplies last.
Log 20 non-drive-alone trips (10 round-trips) for a chance to earn a $50 local grocery store gift card.
Log 30 non-drive-alone trips (15 round-trips) for a chance to earn a $150 local restaurant gift card.