June is Ride Transit Month – Celebrate with Choose Your Way Bellevue

Posted on May 29, 2026

June is Ride Transit Month, and transit agencies, advocacy organizations, and riders across Washington State are coming together to celebrate the buses, trains, ferries, vanpools, and streetcars that keep our communities connected. Whether you ride everyday, or you’ve never tapped an ORCA card, this is the perfect time to hop aboard and explore what public transit can do for you.

This June is especially exciting for the region. The 2026 International Soccer Tournament is coming to Seattle, with matches at Seattle Stadium (Lumen Field) from June 15 through July 6. With limited parking and heavy traffic expected around game days, transit is the smartest way to get around. Whether you’re headed to a match, a Fan Zone, or just trying to avoid the extra congestion, riding transit this month is a no-brainer.

Ride Transit Month is about more than just getting from point A to point B. It’s about saving money, cutting emissions, reducing traffic, and discovering how easy it can be to get around without driving alone. Here in Bellevue, Choose Your Way Bellevue is celebrating with the Ride Transit Month Travel Challenge and the Ride, Explore, Transfer: From Bellevue to Union Station event.

The Ride Transit Month Travel Challenge

All month long, Choose Your Way Bellevue is rewarding you for riding transit with the Ride Transit Month Travel Challenge. If you take a sustainable transit trip to, from, or around Bellevue, you can earn special rewards just by logging those trips during June.

Here’s how it works:

Create an account on the Choose Your Way Bellevue RideShare Online portal
Start logging your public transit trips
Reach your trip goals and earn entries into reward drawings!

The Challenge Rewards:

Log 15 non-drive-alone trips → Drawing to receive 1 of 8 $30 Spotify gift cards
Log 30 trips → Drawing to receive 1 of 8 $60 Spotify gift cards

The more you log, the more you can earn. In addition to the Ride Transit Month Travel Challenge, your transit trips also count toward Choose Your Way Bellevue's ongoing monthly rewards.

Ride, Explore, Transfer: From Bellevue to Union Station

New to transit, or curious about the 2 Line Crosslake Connection? Join Choose Your Way Bellevue and Sound Transit for Ride, Explore, Transfer: From Bellevue to Union Station, a free group light rail adventure on Thursday, June 26, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m..

We'll meet at Bellevue Downtown Station and ride together across the floating bridge to Seattle's historic Union Station by the International District/Chinatown (IDC) Station. Along the way, you'll get a walkthrough of how to transfer between the 1 Line and 2 Line at the IDC station, which is a must-know skill for connecting to destinations further south like SeaTac Airport. Then we'll hop back on the train and ride home to Bellevue together.

This is a great opportunity for anyone who's been wanting to try light rail but wasn't sure where to start. No ORCA card? No problem. We'll provide preloaded ORCA cards to cover the cost of the ride.

Questions? Contact us at info@cywb.org

More Ways to Celebrate

Ride Transit Month is a statewide celebration, and there's no shortage of ways to get involved beyond Bellevue. Transportation Choices Coalition organizes the effort each year and offers fun activities like Transit Bingo that you can play all month long while you're out logging trips.

Whether you're commuting to work, heading to a summer event, or just exploring somewhere new, every transit trip you take in June is worth celebrating.