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2 Line (East Link Light Rail)
Sound Transit's 33-mile light rail line linking Seattle to the Eastside, with eight stations in and near Bellevue.
The 2 Line, also known as East Link, is a Sound Transit Link light rail line that crosses Lake Washington on the Interstate 90 floating bridge to connect Seattle with the Eastside cities of Bellevue and Redmond. An initial Eastside-only starter segment between South Bellevue and Redmond Technology opened on April 27, 2024, the Downtown Redmond extension followed on May 10, 2025, and the full connection across Lake Washington to Seattle's 1 Line opened on March 28, 2026.
Within Bellevue the line serves South Bellevue, East Main, Bellevue Downtown, Wilburton, Spring District/120th, and BelRed/130th stations before continuing into Redmond. The Bellevue alignment mixes elevated viaducts, an at-grade median, a retained-cut trench, and a roughly 2,000-foot tunnel beneath downtown.
Operated by Sound Transit, the line is a centerpiece of the region's transit expansion and has reshaped Bellevue's growth, anchoring transit-oriented development in the Spring District and the Bel-Red corridor.
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Downtown
Steven Holl-designed art, craft and design museum in downtown Bellevue, a landmark of the city's pedestrian corridor.
- Type
- Art, craft and design museum
- Building opened
- 2001
- Architect
- Steven Holl
Bellevue City Hall
Downtown
Bellevue's nine-story city hall, a former telephone-company building reopened as municipal headquarters in 2006.
- Type
- City hall / government
- Building completed
- 1983 (as Pacific NW Bell)
- City reopened as City Hall
- 2006
Bellevue Downtown Station
Downtown
The 2 Line's downtown station in a retained cut beside Bellevue City Hall, at the east end of a tunnel under the city.
- Opened
- April 27, 2024
- Line
- 2 Line
- Type
- Retained cut
Bellevue Library
Downtown
The 80,000-square-foot Bellevue Library is the largest branch in the King County Library System.
- Type
- Public library (KCLS)
- Building opened
- July 1, 1993
- Size
- approx. 80,000 sq ft