Entries for date "September 2025"

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

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

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. …