The East Corridor Task Force is addressing key issues for communities along the corridor, which will connect the Eastside’s biggest population and employment centers with stations in Seattle, Mercer Island, Bellevue, and Redmond.

Contact: Ben Bakkenta, 206-971-3286 or Mary Pat Lawlor, 206-971-3272

Meeting Summaries and Past Presentations

Task Force Members

Membership of the Corridor Task Forces consists of appointments made by the Oversight Committee upon the nomination of Consortium partners, with assistance of project staff & Affordable Housing and Equity Network Steering Committees.

Doug Mathews, Co-Chair - Bellevue Community Representative
Lori Peckol, Co-Chair – City of Redmond

Lyle Bicknell – City of Seattle
William Biggs – Redmond Economic Development Alliance
Suzanne Cartwright – University of Washington—Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies
Chris Cole – Sher Partners
Gordon Dutrisac – DigiPen Institute of Technology
Wes Edwards – King County
Hal Ferris – Bellevue Planning Commission
Scott Greenberg – City of Mercer Island
Tom Hinman – Redmond Community Representative
Emil King – City of Bellevue
Kathe Low – Sustainable Redmond
Ann Levine – Imagine Housing
Leonard McGhee – Sound Transit
Adam Parast - Seattle Transit Blog
Jessica Powers – Wright Runstad and Company
Tracy Reich – Impact Capital
Kelly Rider – Housing Development Consortium-Seattle and King County
Dave Russell – Forterra
Jim Stanton – Microsoft
Tom Stowe - Councilmember, Town of Beaux Arts Village
Arthur Sullivan – A Regional Coalition for Housing (ARCH)
Phil Wood - Jones Lang LaSalle
Gerald Wright – Hopelink

Alternates

Jeff Aken – Forterra
Emily Alvarado – Housing Development Consortium-Seattle and King County
Eric Evans – Imagine Housing
Paul Inghram – City of Bellevue
Trinity Parker – Sound Transit
Len Psyk - Redmond Economic Development Alliance
Sarah Stiteler - City of Redmond
Jonathan Morrison Winters – Hopelink

More Information

The corridor includes 14 station areas and other transit nodes that connect major employment centers, such as downtown Bellevue and the Microsoft Campus, residential neighborhoods, such as South Bellevue, and major institutions, such as Bellevue College. Extensive planning for transit-oriented communities has occurred in the corridor, including recently completed neighborhood and subarea plans around several existing stations, extensive light rail alignment studies, and a corridor environmental impact statement.

In the nearer term, a planned King County Metro RapidRide B line — with service slated to begin in fall 2011 — will serve much of the corridor with a bus rapid transit connection between the Bellevue Transit Center, Overlake Transit Center, and the downtown Redmond Transit Center.
The East Corridor Task Force will focus on identifying and implementing approximately three demonstration projects to address key issues and implementation steps within the corridor, potentially addressing issues such as:

• Transit, bicycle, and pedestrian connectivity to, from, and within the station area or transit node
• Preservation of affordable commercial space
• Parking demand and supply analysis and subsequent management strategies