Alki Point Stay Healthy Street: "Make it permanent!"

  • Aug. 27, 2020
KMSAlkiPointWOCOnRollerskatesReduced Story and photo by Loren Schwartz (Stay Healthy Alki Point) The change resulting from making Alki Point/Beach Drive a Stay Healthy Street was immediate and transformative. At once, it made the street safe and inclusive. Prior to the Stay Healthy Street designation, Beach Drive was a route fairly exclusively designed for motorists. It seems planners hadn't anticipated the amount or type of traffic and behavior that these streets and parks …
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We Stand in Support of BLM Protesters and Decry Any Use of Cars as Weapons

  • July 9, 2020
We are horrified at the tragic event that led to Summer Taylor’s death, and Diaz Love’s serious injuries, in the early hours of Saturday, July 4th—a driver, rushing at high speed, entered the WSP-closed Interstate 5 through an offramp, swerved around clear barricades, and plowed straight into the Black Femme March. We don’t have all the facts, but we express our strong solidarity with those peacefully protesting for positive change. …
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Re-Imagining Traffic Enforcement

New: Watch this short video about our work so far As part of our

commitment to racial justice

, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways (SNG) is looking at how the urgent calls for police accountability and defunding police intersect with our core issues of safe and healthy streets. Traffic enforcement is too often the pretext for armed police to stop Black and brown people, sometimes with catastrophic consequences. There must be a …

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Letter of Support from SNG Staff

  • clara
  • April 8, 2020
WereAboutPeopleCollage-small At our very core, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is a grassroots organization. We’re made up of neighbors, like you, all across the city. We are everyday folks, with varied backgrounds and interests, who’ve come together to figure out what it takes to make our neighborhood streets healthy and welcoming for the most basic of daily activities — getting from one place to another, safely, comfortably, conveniently.  We are passionate about our …
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