A walk to the train, a ramp to the freeway.

Sound Transit's Downtown Bellevue station sits at 594 110th Ave NE, roughly 0.3–0.4 miles — about four blocks — east of the block, with two side platforms along the NE 6th Street corridor across from the Bellevue Transit Center. The light-rail station opened in 2024 and shares its address with the bus transit center that has operated there since 1985.

The 2 Line opened in two stages: an Eastside-only starter segment on April 27, 2024, then the cross-lake connection to Seattle on March 28, 2026. The full line runs 25 stations from Lynnwood to Downtown Redmond.

In 2025 the Downtown Bellevue station averaged about 1,303 weekday boardings (391,219 for the year), within a 2 Line carrying roughly 6,511 weekday / 2,074,239 annual riders — figures that should climb now that the line reaches Seattle. Onni 606 dedicates a 30-foot Grand Connection segment along the NE 6th pedestrian corridor pointing toward the station.

As of 2026, Walk Score rates 606 106th Ave NE a 93 (“Walker's Paradise” — most daily errands need no car), with a Transit Score of 60 and a Bike Score of 55. The block is within easy walking distance of the Bellevue Collection, City Hall and the downtown park network, and ties into Bellevue's landscaped Grand Connection greenway.

Interstate 405 runs along the east side of downtown, with a direct-access express-toll-lane ramp at NE 6th Street that connects straight into the freeway's express lanes, plus general-purpose downtown interchanges nearby. State Route 520, the cross-lake corridor toward Seattle and Redmond, ties into I-405 just north of downtown.

Parking is shrinking by design: a 2025 plan refinement cut the project's below-grade garage from 2,479 stalls to 1,712, leaning on the site's transit access and Bellevue's downtown parking standards.

A 2025 plan refinement (file 24-113252-LJ) cut Onni 606's below-grade garage from 2,479 stalls across seven levels to 1,712 across five — about 31% fewer — while raising indoor bike parking from 288 to roughly 532. The applicant tied the smaller garage to transit access: the block sits about 0.3–0.4 miles from the 2 Line's Downtown Bellevue station, inside the half-mile rail walkshed Bellevue's code treats as transit-served.

Bellevue's Downtown district sets parking by ratio rather than a fixed mandate, and the city has been steadily loosening those ratios near rail. A 2021 reform (Ordinances 6575 and 6589) cut minimum residential parking for multifamily within a half-mile of a “frequent transit stop” — service at least four times an hour, 12 hours a day, a bar the Downtown Bellevue station clears — and the city has since opened a broader parking-reform code amendment. That backdrop is what lets a tower this close to the train build well below a conventional one-stall-per-unit garage.

The wider policy points the same way, though the timing makes it context rather than cause: Washington's 2025 transit-oriented-development laws — HB 1491, which curbs parking mandates and requires higher density near rail, and SB 5184's caps on required parking — passed after this design was filed and phase in around the end of the decade. The garage cut is best read as a project moving early in the direction those laws point; the city record states the reduction but not the applicant's stall-by-stall justification.