Bellevue, Washington Lake to Lake Television Show, 25 Sep 2020

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From YouTube: Lake to Lake, September 2020

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Ride along with this month’s Lake to Lake to find out about a new ride service in Bellevue. The show features:
• Information about Crossroads Connect, a new on-demand ride service for the Crossroads area;
• A one-minute tour of the Mercer Slough; and
• A new trail made possible by a neighborhood partnership to help area residents.
Lake to Lake is produced by Bellevue Television and is available on Cable Channel 21 and on the BellevueTelevision You Tube Channel. For more information, email BTV@BellevueWA.gov

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Hello and welcome to lake to lake a show about our beautiful city of bellevue. I'm your host robin steele today we're coming to you from the crossroads neighborhood and we're featuring some great new projects on this episode of lake to lake, we'll celebrate the grand opening of a new walking trail, we'll take you on a one-minute tour of the beautiful mercer slough and we'll ride along to check out a new, on-demand ride service for the crossroads area.

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Bellevue is an exciting and diverse city, and one of our most vibrant neighborhoods is here in the crossroads area. We start today with a look at a new trail designed to help connect crossroads residents from northeast 15th street to north of way.

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So we're here today for the opening celebration of the crossroads trail. This is a trail connection that runs from north up way at the north end to northeast 15th street. At the south end to the north. We have residential areas and a couple of schools, including interlake high school to the south, is crossroads. Mall and the crossroads park and community center, so there's destinations at either end that people really want to get to, and this trail connection is an efficient way for people to access those destinations.

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If I were to go all the way around, not using the trail to get to my school, that would take about 15 minutes. But if I take the trail, it's like seven minutes. So it's actually really good and I'm always late for school.

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The trail before was pretty rough and it was, it was a little variable, the north end was paved and then the middle part was the really the roughest part. It was uneven and dirt surface.

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I go to interlake high school and basically like if we're walking like at you know, 7 7 30 a.m. It's like super dark, it's like midnight and like it used to be puddly because of the rain, and sometimes you can't even get through.

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So definitely it's so much better to walk by it's so clean, actually and like safer it just it really looks safer.

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A key development that allowed us to improve this trail was securing an easement from the owner of the apartment building at the south end. So for a lot of years, people have used this connection, but we weren't able to fully improve it until we had public access rights to the whole length.

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Now that we've fully improved it, we expect that a broader segment of the community will really feel comfortable. Using this connection, we.

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Just live nearby and we are so glad that we got this trail got improved.

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We're looking forward to it really being an amenity that the community can appreciate and that we can maintain at a standard that people expect.

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With the pandemic, and especially with our summer, cut short by the recent wildfires, we still wanted to share with you one of bellevue's, most beautiful treasures. Here's a one minute look of the mercer slough nature.

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Hi we're at the stop for a new on-demand service in bellevue called crossroads connect the service lets people in the crossroads area request rides using an easy mobile, app or just a phone call for the same cost as the king county metro bus ride, a crossroads, connect vehicle will pick you up and take you to the crossroads. Connect stop or you can request a ride from the crossroads. Connect stop to a different location in the crossroads service area.

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The stop is at northeast 10th, street and 156th avenue northeast next to the crossroads shopping center. It provides easy, close connections to the rapid ride, bee line station and other metro bus routes that serve the east side. An important thing to remember is that your ride must either start or end at the crossroads. Connect stop booking a ride on crossroads. Connect is easy to show you how easy we followed crossroads resident susan ruggles on her first ride.

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It was very easy and convenient. I used the app and before I knew it, the vehicle was at my front door and brought me to the bus stop so that I could take my trip downtown. It will make it very convenient for me and my husband thank you.

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So much first download the app next follow the directions to request a ride, then wait 10 to 15 minutes to be picked up. Crossroads connects runs october. 1St, through june of 2021 service is available monday through friday, from 3 to 9 pm.

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It's brought to you by the city of bellevue and king county metro for more information check the project web page. The crossroads connect service is easy and convenient. If you live work or go to school in the crossroads area, I encourage you to give it a try.

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That's all for us today. We hope you enjoyed our show featuring some of the reasons. Bellevue is a city where you want to be. If you have any feedback or questions for us, please email us anytime at vtv, bellevue wa.gov also be sure to subscribe to our youtube channel to keep up with our latest video news and information and for the latest on city resources and news visit. Bellevue wa.gov, I'm robin steele. Thanks for watching there's my ride see you next time.

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