Act Now: Equitable Hiring for School Crossing Guards!

Seattle needs crossing guards to help kids get safely to school - let's make it more equitable to hire them! Act now to tell the Seattle School Board to reduce barriers for hiring school crossing guards.

  A Black man in an orange vest holds traffic while four children of varying ages cross the street in front of him. Crossing guards are critical to help kids safely walk, roll, and bike to school. Many guards are beloved pillars of their community and all of them serve in bad weather for little pay …

Advocacy 101: Building a Powerful Grassroots Campaign

A colorful crowd of people stand in a city plaza surrounded by trees and tall buildings. In the front stands a speaker with a green shirt and long black braid, and an ASL interpreter with a black shirt, both with arms raised to the crowd. Want to make a change in your community, but not sure where to begin? On March 16, we hosted a grassroots advocacy workshop focused on basic campaign planning, political strategy and coalition building. Workshop attendees brainstormed ideas and solutions around real-life examples affecting our communities. The strength of the Seattle Neighborhood Greenways coalition is rooted in grassroots people power. We’re grateful to our incredible volunteers for all of our past …

Act Now: New Transportation Plan Must Prioritize Safety for People on Bikes

Two teenage girls with brown skin stand astride their bicycles, smiling. Behind them is a street and some tall trees. The Seattle Transportation Plan (STP) will guide the city’s bike planning and implementation for the next decade and must prioritize safety, equity and connectivity. Right now, it’s not. Seattle needs a transportation plan that creates a complete network of safe, accessible, …

What's next for safe streets with our new mayor?

2022 is going to be a big year. At the start of both the Murray and Durkan mayoral administrations, we had to fight to restore critical walking and biking projects that were delayed, canceled, or watered down. Will we see the same pattern with mayor-elect Harrell? Only time will tell, but it gives us pause that he let competent SDOT director Sam Zimbabwe go. Will you chip in to make …

2021 Year In Review — Putting our values into action

At Seattle Neighborhood Greenways we believe that our streets should reflect our shared values as a city.

When we polled Seattle voters in October, we found that those values that have guided our work these past ten years are widely shared and supported. When asked what values are important to how Seattle funds and allocates space on our streets, there was strong support for all nine values listed: Safety, racial …