BELLEVUE — Stand atop the Wilburton light rail station, a few blocks from downtown Bellevue, and Claudia Balducci’s vision of regional government comes into focus.

Here, next to the Infiniti and Porsche dealerships, is a confluence of projects — housing, land use, transit — she has worked on throughout her two-decade career in elected office.

The station lies in the middle of a multibillion-dollar, multidecade light rail line that is open because of her advocacy and, early next year, will finally cross Lake Washington.

Right beneath the station is a brand-new bike and pedestrian bridge that will be part of a 42-mile Eastside trail running from Snohomish to Renton. The bridge, clad in multifaceted aluminum to echo Japanese paper folding and featuring a mural nodding to Japanese pottery,

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