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by throwaheyy 1069 days ago
The city of Bellevue WA adopted SCATS a few years ago and driving there seems much more pleasant now. I can drive from downtown Bellevue to the Microsoft campus and often face only two red lights (if you know the area: crossing 20th St/Northrop Way and then turning left onto 156th Ave). Before you would be stuck at a bunch of red lights after the cross traffic was long gone. And almost every intersection now has permissive left turns where before you’d have to wait on an unnecessarily long red arrow. Don’t know how “dumb” their system was before but it’s been a big improvement.
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What's the pedestrian experience like now compared to before?
No idea. Bellevue is pretty suburban. Most people drive, it’s too spread out to walk many places.