Transportation Choices Coalition: Eastside Transportation Choices

Summary. Formed in 2003, Eastside Transportation Choices is Transportation Choices Coalition's newest chapter. Eastside Transportation Choices works to bring you and other residents in communities east of Lake Washington*
more and better transportation choices.

Background. A major impetus behind the formation of Eastside Transportation Choices is a shared concern over how transportation funds in regional proposals are going mostly to expanding major freeways around the Eastside, to the detriment of local road improvements and building more transit.

Eastside Transportation Choices mission is "to advance the improvement and expansion of environmentally responsible travel mode options available to Eastside residents, businesses and other transportation stakeholders. They support diverse and sustainable transportation investments and policies, which effectively and efficiently provide access and mobility for people and goods."

Proposals. The citizens, elected officials and community leaders who participate in Eastside Transportation Choices gather to study, discuss and take positions on local and regional transportation issues with the goal of being a voice for transportation choices.

Eastside Transportation Choices participants will often help develop and support proposals like bringing High Capacity Transit (like light rail or monorail) across and around Lake Washington, and improving bus service throughout the Eastside.

Take Action! Eastside Transportation Choices encourages citizen involvement in the development of future transportation plans and decisions.

You're welcome to join the Eastside Transportation Choices chapter at regular monthly meetings, held from 5:30-7:30pm on the 4th Wednesday of the month at Wilbur Smith Associates, next to the Bellevue Transit Center.

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*Note: The geographic boundaries of Eastside Transportation Choices include all incorporated and unincorporated areas of east King County, east of the Cities of Seattle, Lake Forest Park and Tukwila; and north of Kent.