It is the purpose of this section to restrict truck traffic in the city of Bellevue to the maximum extent possible to the state highway system or to authorized truck routes, and to prohibit truck traffic on city arterials and streets except where no alternative state highway route or authorized truck route is available. In furtherance of this purpose, all trucks, truck tractors, truck and trailer combinations or truck tractor and semitrailer combinations over eight feet in width, over 30 feet in length, or over 32,000 pounds licensed gross weight, and all vehicles transporting radioactive or hazardous cargo, shall be restricted to the state highway system or to one of the following authorized routes while traveling to and from locations within the city; provided, when such locations are not immediately adjacent to a state highway route or an authorized truck route, vehicles described in this section shall use the shortest and most direct city arterial route between the nearest highway route or authorized truck route and such departure location or destination location, and such vehicles may not use city nonarterial streets except when traveling directly between such locations and the nearest arterial, highway or authorized truck route:

Route 1 – 148th Avenue NE/SE between Eastgate Way and North City Limit (6000 blk).

Route 2 – Bellevue Way NE/SE between Interstate 90 and NE Northup Way.

Route 3 – NE 8th Street between Bellevue Way NE and 156th Avenue NE.

Route 4 – 124th Avenue NE between Bellevue-Redmond Road and State Route 520.

Route 5 – NE 12th Street/Bellevue-Redmond Road between Bellevue Way NE and NE 40th St.

Route 6 – NE Northup Way/NE 20th St between Bellevue Way NE and 148th Avenue NE.

Route 7 – 112th Avenue NE between NE 12th Street and Bellevue Way SE.

Route 8 – 156th Avenue NE between NE 8th Street and Bellevue-Redmond Road.

Route 9 – 116th Avenue/Lake Hills Connector between NE 12th Street and SE 8th Street.

Route 10 – 120th Avenue NE between NE 4th Street and NE Northup Way.

Route 11 – SE 8th Street between 112th Avenue SE and Lake Hills Connector.

Route 12 – Forest Drive SE between Coal Creek Parkway and Lakemont Boulevard SE.

Route 13 – Lakemont Boulevard SE between the south City limits (at Newcastle Golf Club Road) and I-90.

Route 14 – NE 4th Street between Bellevue Way NE and 120th Avenue NE.

Route 15 – 112th Avenue/108th Avenue NE between NE 12th Street and NE Northup Way.

Route 16 – SE Eastgate Way between Richards Road and 150th Avenue SE.

Route 17 – SE 36th Street/SE 38th Street between Factoria Boulevard SE and 150th Avenue SE.

Route 18 – Factoria Boulevard SE between Coal Creek Parkway and SE Eastgate Way.

Route 19 – Coal Creek Parkway between I-405 and the south City limits.

Route 20 – 150th Avenue SE between SE Eastgate Way and SE 38th Street. (Ord. 6313 § 1, 2016; Ord. 5284 § 1, 2001; Ord. 5140 § 1, 1999; Ord. 4652 § 1, 1994; Ord. 4642 § 1, 1994; Ord. 3934 § 1, 1988; Ord. 3692 § 1, 1986.)