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A Safer Connection from West Seattle to Downtown: East Marginal Way is Open!

JoshHolland
Oct. 24, 2025

After more than a decade of advocacy, the East Marginal Way Corridor Improvement Project is complete — creating a safer, smoother, and more connected route between West Seattle and Downtown for everyone who bikes, walks, rolls, and drives.

New East Marginal Way Bike Path

What was once one of Seattle’s most intimidating streets is now a model for how safety, freight mobility, and community priorities can come together. The newly …

Reimagining Seattle's Streets: Community-Driven Transformation for Safety and Justice

JoshHolland
Oct. 20, 2025

In a powerful evening celebrating community at the Centilia Cultural Center on Beacon Hill, Seattle advocates from South Park, the MLK Jr. Way S Corridor, and Aurora Ave N shared a compelling vision for the future of Seattle’s streets that prioritizes human life over vehicle speed.

Community Crossroads Speakers and Moderator

The night began with Dhyana Quintanar Solares’ urgent call to action. Her opening remarks painted a stark picture of Seattle's transportation crisis: since …

New Connections for the Duwamish Valley: Safety and Belonging in Southeast Seattle

JoshHolland
Sept. 22, 2025

We’re celebrating!!!

Construction is now complete on 3.5 miles of new bike lanes that will transform how people are able to get into and around the Duwamish Valley!

This project will not only serve neighborhood residents and workers in South Park, Georgetown, and SODO, but it also represents a response from the city to historic and ongoing inequitable land use practices that have divided communities across the Duwamish Valley since …

Beacon Hill’s New Bike Lanes: A Decade of Advocacy, A Community Win

JoshHolland
Sept. 15, 2025

For over a decade, Beacon Hill Safe Streets has been organizing, advocating, and fighting for safer streets in Southeast Seattle. This month, that work is paying off in a big way with the opening of new bike lanes and pedestrian improvements along 15th Ave S and Beacon Ave S—transforming a critical corridor for people biking, walking, and riding transit.

Trolly bus on Beacon Hill with doors opening to a floating island. A bicylist passes by in the bike lane while people wait at the bus shelter for the next bus

How We Got Here

Back in 2019, things looked grim. …

The Downtown Waterfront Bike Path Is Now Complete — With a Key Connection to the North

clara
July 25, 2025

The transformation of Seattle’s waterfront continues — and it just got even better for people biking and rolling.

Earlier this year, we celebrated the opening of the new protected trail along the downtown waterfront. Now, thanks to community advocacy and thoughtful adjustments, that trail is finally connected to the Elliott Bay Trail via a brand-new protected bike lane on the west side (along the water) of Alaskan Way.

This …

A Safer Connection from West Seattle to Downtown: East Marginal Way is Open!

Reimagining Seattle's Streets: Community-Driven Transformation for Safety and Justice

New Connections for the Duwamish Valley: Safety and Belonging in Southeast Seattle

Beacon Hill’s New Bike Lanes: A Decade of Advocacy, A Community Win

How We Got Here

The Downtown Waterfront Bike Path Is Now Complete — With a Key Connection to the North

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