Seattle Neighborhood Greenways

Whose Streets? Our Streets! (WSOS) is a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led and focused workgroup that advanced mobility justice for communities of color in Seattle. WSOS developed relationships with BIPOC communities, offered community workshops, hosted town halls and listening sessions, and conducted extensive outreach at BIPOC community events. Based on its participatory research, WSOS also crafted a report of findings detailing how the City of Seattle can advance more equitable policies related to automated speed cameras and creating safer streets.

We continue to hold the City of Seattle accountable to its Vision Zero goal of zero traffic fatalities or serious injuries by 2030. We organized in communities most impacted by traffic violence to fix dangerous streets and build safe places for people to walk, bike, and roll. We organized volunteers to honor over 200 of our neighbors who have been killed in car crashes around Seattle since 2015. Volunteers placed silhouettes at crash sites around the city and held memorial walks along 4th Ave S, Aurora Avenue North (led by the Aurora Reimagined Coalition), and MLK Way S to bring attention to Seattles most dangerous streets. Other highlights were the opening of the I-90 Trail Connection to the Rainier Valley Greenway and West Marginal Way protected bike lanes.

We continue to advocate for every child to be able to walk or bike to school safely and comfortably. We organized the Bailey Gatzert Elementary Walking School Bus (led by Central Seattle Greenways) to get more kids walking to school than ever before. We also won funding in the city budget for two critical safe routes to school projects: Accessible Mt. Baker to create a multi-use trail/school street connecting Franklin High School and Mount Baker Station and the S Henderson St School Safety Project in Rainier Beach to make it safer and more comfortable for students walking, rolling, and biking.

We continue our efforts to create streets for people around the city. We held a community event to build momentum for bringing pedestrian streets to the heart of every neighborhood. We celebrated that six Healthy Streets across the city, from Lake City to South Park, are becoming permanent, ensuring this temporary program we advocated for during the pandemic will have lasting benefits for more neighborhoods. We also won improvements to the planned Downtown Waterfront Trail to create a wider path that is better protected from cars and close the gap between the Seattle Aquarium and Olympic Sculpture Park.