Editing Sammamish, Washington (section)

==Transportation==
Sammamish is served by several major north–south roads: East Lake Sammamish Parkway along the lake shore, 228th Avenue through the business district, and Issaquah-Pine Lake Road. Southeast 4th Street connects 228th Avenue to the city's town center.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SE 4th Street Improvements |publisher=City of Sammamish |url=https://www.sammamish.us/projects/se-4th-improvements/ |access-date=2025-03-03}}</ref> To the north and east of the city is [[Washington State Route 202|State Route 202]], providing access to [[Redmond, Washington|Redmond]], and to the south is [[Interstate 90 in Washington|Interstate 90]] in [[Issaquah, Washington|Issaquah]]. A regional freeway, [[Interstate 605 (Washington)|Interstate 605]], has been proposed several times since the 1960s to run through Sammamish, but has not been built.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://old.seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2001979989_corridor15e.html|title=State study revives idea of new Western Washington highway|last=Singer|first=Natalie|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=January 21, 2018|date=July 15, 2004|archive-date=December 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223161246/http://old.seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2001979989_corridor15e.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Bus service is provided by [[King County Metro]] routes 218, 269, and [[Sound Transit Express]] route 554 to Redmond, Issaquah, and [[Downtown Seattle]]. South Sammamish Park and Ride is the city's transit center with 265 parking stalls. Metro began running [[dial-a-ride]] buses to the Sammamish Plateau in 1993,<ref>{{cite news |last=Guadette |first=Karen |date=February 11, 2005 |title=Little bus makes a big difference |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20050211/transiteast10e/little-bus-makes-a-big-difference |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref> and it later extended commuter services in the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Foster |first=George |date=October 21, 2001 |title=Getting There: Now you see the lane... |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/transportation/article/Getting-There-Now-you-see-the-lane-1069476.php |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref>

The King County government started construction of an {{convert|11|mi|km|adj=mid}} [[bike trail]] on the east side of [[Lake Sammamish]] in 1998. It was completed in 2023, replacing a disused railway.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Safety, accessibility enhanced as 1.2-mile-long East Lake Sammamish Trail segment reopens |date=January 17, 2018 |publisher=King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks |url=http://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/dnrp/newsroom/newsreleases/2018/January/17-ELST-south-samm-a-opens.aspx |access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release |date=October 11, 2023 |title=Now open! King County completes East Lake Sammamish Trail, contributing to the 44-mile Locks to Lake Corridor |url=https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dnrp/about-king-county/about-dnrp/newsroom/news-releases/10-11-east-lake-sammamish-trail |access-date=January 29, 2024 |publisher=King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks}}</ref>