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Through the rigorous dedication of our staff and local neighborhood groups, we've been able to reach many milestones some once thought impossible. Not us! We believe in this work and in its potential to save and improve the lives of many throughout Seattle. With your support, we can keep pushing forward.
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2024
- The Urbanist | 23 November 2024 | Seattle Council Passes Budget Swiping Affordable Housing Funds to Boost SPD
- SDOT | 22 November 2024 | Georgetown to South Park Connection project breaks ground, expands protected bike & scooter route through Georgetown
- KUOW | 15 November 2024 | Why the future of Seattle's Lake Washington Boulevard has sparked a heated debate
- Seattle Bike Blog | 14 November 2024 | Seattle prepares to pass budget with huge increases for safe streets + What CM Saka should do about Delridge
- City of Seattle | 8 November 2024 | Seattle Voters Approve Transportation Levy
- Seattle Times | 5 November 2024 | Seattle Proposition 1 wins support from voters
- KOMO | 31 October 2024 | Seattle voters weigh in on Proposition 1, balancing tax hikes and infrastructure needs
- Seattle Bike Blog | 31 October 2024 | SNGreenways storymap shows how the 2015 transportation levy ‘made Seattle a safer place’
- Seattle Times | 21 October 2024 | Can $1.55 billion make Seattle streets safer?
- Cascade PBS | 18 October 2024 | Case for and against Seattle’s largest-ever transportation levy
- Seattle Bike Blog | 30 September 2024 | Cascade and SNG co-host free ride to promote November’s transportation levy
- The Seattle Times | 16 September 2024 | Vote yes on Prop. 1, Levy to Move Seattle
- The Urbanist | 12 September 2024 | ‘Keep Seattle Moving’ Levy Campaign Kicks Off
- Seattle Bike Blog | 12 September 2024 | At memorial bike ride for her husband, Hulsman asked attendees to vote yes on the transportation levy
- Seattle Bike Blog | 26 August 2024 | Our kid is biking on MLK!
- The Stranger | 21 August 2024 | Aurora Residents Deserve Better Than Seattle’s Old Ideas
- Seattle Times | 18 August 2024 | Seattle’s Aurora Avenue can’t climb out of its cut-rate economy
- The Urbanist | 16 August 2024 | Trail Tunnel Added Back to 520 Lid Plans After WSDOT Reversal
- Real Change | 18 July 2024 | Voters to decide on finalized $1.55 billion transportation levy
- The Urbanist | 10 July 2024 | Seattle Sends $1.55 Billion Transportation Levy to the November Ballot
- The Seattle Times | 1 July 2024 | Sidewalks top of mind for Seattle’s priciest-ever transportation levy
- Seattle Bike Blog | 28 June 2024 | Morales’ transportation levy amendment would fund Council priorities without pitting them against each other
- The Seattle Times | 28 June 2024 | Seattle council member proposes ‘bolder’ $1.7B transportation levy
- Seattle Transit Blog | 28 June 2024 | Councilmember Morales proposes +$150M to Seattle Transportation Levy, Totaling $1.7B
- The Urbanist | 27 June 2024 | Morales Makes Last Minute Push for $1.7 Billion Transportation Levy
- KUOW | 17 June 2024 | More people die on south Seattle streets, where wide streets encourage fast driving
- The Urbanist | 16 June 2024 | Key Takeaways from Seattle Greenways’ Building Great Streets Event
- South Seattle Emerald | 3 June 2024| Mixed Opinions Surface for Safety Improvements to Lake Washington Boulevard
- Seattle Transit Blog | 3 June 2024 | More Money and Oversight for Transportation Levy
- The Seattle Times | 3 June 2024 | Proposal would add another $100M to Seattle transportation levy
- The Urbanist | 3 June 2024 | Saka Adds $100 Million to Transportation Levy for Sidewalks, Freight, EV Charging
- Capitol Hill Blog Seattle | 31 May 2024 | Police seek public’s help in deadly Olive Way hit and run investigation
- Seattle Bike Blog | 31 May 2024 | Greenways: 6 people killed in Seattle traffic in a single week as Council considers street safety funding
- The Seattle Times | 20 May 2024 | Seattle goes Dutch with a new bicycle intersection
- The Stranger | 20 May 2024 | Shrinking Levy Transit Funding Won’t Help Seattle Reach Its Climate Goals
- The Urbanist | 20 May 2024 | Seattle’s First Protected Intersection Opens at Dexter and Thomas
- Seattle Bike Blog | 14 May 2024 | Rita Hulsman donates $20,000 from GoFundMe for late husband Steve to benefit safe streets orgs
- Cascade PBS | 10 May 2024 | Advocates say Seattle’s $1.45B transportation tax isn’t enough
- The Urbanist | 9 May 2024 | Mobility Advocates Find Support for Bigger Levy in Poll, Council Deliberates
- Seattle Transit Blog | 6 May 2024 | 2024 Transportation Levy
- The Urbanist | 4 May 2024 | Harrell Adds $100 Million to Transportation Levy Proposal, Sends to City Council
- PubliCola | 3 May 2024 | Harrell’s Transportation Levy Proposal Boosts Tax Measure to $1.45 Million
- Crosscut | 30 April 2024 | Is Seattle a walkable city? Pedestrian death rates show otherwise
- Seattle Times | 29 April 2024 | Seattle’s growth: Focus on walkability
- KOMO | 20 April 2024 | Seattle coalition demands more housing, sustainable transportation in city growth plan
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 18 April 2024 | Groups will rally Saturday in the Central District for ‘more housing and better transportation’ in Seattle
- Seattle Bike Blog | 16 April 2024 | How Mayor Harrell’s proposed transportation levy compares
- planetizen | 15 April 2024 | Seattle Road Safety Advocates Say Transportation Levy Perpetuates Car-Centric Status Quo
- Fox 13 News | 11 April 2024 | Foot vs. motor traffic: The push to pedestrianize Seattle's Pike Place Market
- The Urbanist | 11 April 2024 | A Deep Dive on the 15 Corridor Upgrades in Seattle’s Draft Transportation Levy
- C for Crank | 10 April 2024 | Advocates Urge City to Adopt More Ambitious, Less Car-Centric Transportation Levy
- King 5 News | 9 April 2024 | Advocacy group criticizes Seattle's new transportation levy proposal
- Seattle Times | 4 April 2024 | Seattle mayor proposes $1.35 billion transportation property tax levy
- PubliCola | 2 April 2024 | Don’t Open Pike Place to Pedestrians, Council Member Urges
- Seattle Times | 16 February 2024 | Pedestrians have to be miles ahead of drivers when it comes to safety
- Outdoor Magazine | 25 January 2024 | I Biked (Almost) Everywhere for a Month
2023
- Seattle Times | 29 December 2023 | Road safety: Effective, cost-efficient street designs
- Seattle Times | 21 December 2023 | Lawmakers must intervene to reduce deaths on WA’s roads
- Seattle Bike Blog | 21 December 2023 | Alaskan Way bikeway will be wider, better protected in latest design update
- Yale Climate Connections | 20 December 2023 | In a win for the climate, urban speed limits are dropping
- My Northwest | 18 December 2023 | Seattle sidewalks in disrepair to be prioritized by City Council
- Seattle City Council | 12 December 2023 | Seattle City Council passes legislation to improve sidewalks across the city
- The Urbanist | 27 November 2023 | Design Flaws Prompt Changes to Capitol Hill’s Melrose and Pike Intersection
- Seattle Bike Blog | 22 November 2023 | Council passes budget with Mt. Baker, S Henderson safety projects + more
- The Urbanist | 19 November 2023 | Advocates Push for Change on World Day of Remembrance for Crash Victims
- Seattle Times | 19 November 2023 | Safety advocates call for changes to ‘Seattle’s most dangerous corridor’
- King 5 News | 18 November 2023 | Community group marches along Seattle's Aurora Avenue for traffic death awareness
- KOMO News | 17 November 2023 | Group highlights Seattle's street design flaws contributing to pedestrian, cyclist deaths
- Seattle Bike Blog | 16 November 2023 | 'Your neighbor was killed in a car crash here.’ 200+ yellow memorial silhouettes installed around Seattle
- Fox 13 | 15 October 2023 | Cars or no cars? Pike Place vendors weigh in on closing main street to motor traffic
- Seattle Times | 5 October 2023 | As Move Seattle transportation levy winds down, city looks to next ballot measure
- Seattle Times | 28 September 2023 | 2 pedestrians killed in Seattle crashes, raising concerns as traffic fatalities rise
- The Urbanist | 28 September 2023 | Finding the Legacy of the Move Seattle Transportation Levy
- The Urbanist | 21 September 2023 | Seattle Council Set to Empower Freight Board to Water Down Safety Projects
- South Seattle Emerald | 30 August 2023 | Activists Call For Structural Changes to Create Safer Streets in the South End
- The Urbanist | 19 July 2023 |Seattle’s Push for More Automatic Traffic Cameras Intensifies
- The Urbanist | 17 July 2023 | Rainier Valley Greenway’s Final Segment Starts Construction After Years of Red Tape
- West Seattle Blog | 14 July 2023 | GRATITUDE: Claudia Mason’s message, one year later
- Denverite | 13 July 2023 | Michael Hancock gave Denver a bold ‘Vision Zero’ goal of eliminating traffic deaths. Here’s why it failed
- The Urbanist | 20 April 2023 | Lake Washington Blvd Taskforce Comes to Impasse on Future of Parkway
- Seattle Bike Blog | 2 March 2023 | Greenways and Cascade seek more specifics in plan to get Vision Zero back on track
- Fox 13 | 30 January 2023 | 'Knowing what happened here is just such a tragedy': Safety upgrades called for following woman hit and killed
2022
- The Urbanist | 7 December 2022 | Alex Pedersen’s Odd Resistance to Food Trucks, Bike Lanes, and Other Adaptive Street Use
- City of Seattle | 7 December 2022 | Mayor Harrell Signs Executive Order Directing City Departments to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Transportation Sector and Support Those Most Impacted by the Climate Crisis
- The Urbanist | 19 November 2022 | Dear Council: Make Safe Streets a Priority and Keep Parking Enforcement In SDOT
- The Urbanist | 4 November 2022 | Seattle Greenways Offers Their Own 90-Day Review of SDOT’s Vision Zero Safe Streets Campaign
- Seattle Times | 2 August 2022 | Prevent traffic deaths with proven solutions for Seattle streets
- Seattle Times | 30 June 2022 | Seattle is back on lists of best U.S. biking cities. Experts explain what cyclists need for a smoother ride
- People for Bikes | 30 June 2022 | Working to 'Ungap' Seattle's Bike Map
- The Stranger | 23 May 2022 | Central Greenways was out pushing for improvements on 12th Ave
- Seattle Times | 21 May 2022 | Seattle traffic deaths show no sign of slowing as second bicyclist fatally struck this year
- Governing | 20 April 2022 | The Lessons Seattle Learned After a Year of E-ScootersWhat Seattle learned from one year of electric scooters
- Seattle Times | 18 April 2022 | Road rage, injury at Pike Place Market comes amid debate over limiting vehicle traffic
- Seattle Bike Blog | 14 April 2022 | Seattle Neighborhood Greenways event will imagine ‘pedestrian streets in every Seattle neighborhood’
- Seattle Times | 25 March 2022 | $50M experiment aims to make Aurora Avenue more welcoming for bicyclists, pedestrians
- Outside The Beltway | 20 February 2022 | Are Helmet Laws Racist?
- New York Times | 18 February 2022 | Seattle Bike Helmet Rule Is Dropped Amid Racial Justice Concerns
- The Urbanist | 4 February 2022 | State Should Invest $99 Million to Address SR-99’s Many Problems
- KUOW | 24 January 2022 | Pedestrian deaths climb in Seattle, despite city’s pledge to eliminate them
2021
- Seattle Times | 13 July 2021 | University District builds new outdoor-dining spaces with great food options close by
- South Seattle Emerald | 6 July 2021 | District 2 bears the brunt of Seattle’s traffic deaths
- Seattle Times | 6 July 2021| The push to make Seattle’s Aurora Avenue safer for all
- King 5 | 5 July 2021| Neighbors, businesses look to reimagine Aurora Avenue in Seattle
- South Seattle Emerald |30 June 2021| SDOT Plans to Close Lake Washington Boulevard to Cars on Weekends Through September
- South Seattle Emerald |27 May 2021| Lake Washington Boulevard Closed Memorial Day Weekend, Summer Plans Not Decided
- Seattle Times |22 Feb 2021| Racial disparities prompt calls to repeal King County’s bicycle helmet law
- Seattle Met |17 May 2021| Are Seattle’s Cafe Streets Here for Good?
2020
- The Stranger |30 December 2020| The War On Cars Enters its 135th Year
- Crosscut | 17 November 2020 | Pandemic streets showed the promise of car-free Seattle
- KUOW | 23 October 2020 | Lake Washington Boulevard has reopened to cars — but the city’s weighing a permanent closure
- KUOW | 5 October 2 | Seattle ramps up pandemic street closures
- Seattle Bike Blog | 1 July 2020 | What could traffic enforcement look like with no or fewer armed police? SNG task force wants to find out
- CityMetric | 24 June 2020 | Seattle’s swift street closures show the highs and lows of rushing the process
- Eater Seattle | 5 June 2020 | Restaurant Proposes Capitol Hill Street Plaza in Anticipation of Outdoor Dining Reopening
- Transportation Choices Coalition | 4 June 2020 | Transit Chat: Multimodal Meetup
- The Urbanist | 2 June 2020 | City Bypasses Beg Buttons in a Victory for Advocates
- The C is for Crank | 28 May 2020 | COVID-19 Has Sparked Interest in Car-Free Streets. Will It Last?
- Huffington Post | 27 May 2020 | Coronavirus Has Sparked Interest in Car-Free Streets. Will It Last?
- E & E News | 26 May 2020 | Emissions: Commuters are adapting to the virus. What it means for CO2
- KUOW | 19 May 2020 | Not all closed Seattle streets will stay closed after the pandemic
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 13 May 2020 | Set to become permanent part of neighborhood, here’s how people are using the Central District’s Stay Healthy Streets
- Governing Magazine | 8 May 2020 | Seattle Will Keep Some Streets Closed Even After Coronavirus
- Seattle Times | 7 May 2020 | Seattle will permanently close 20 miles of residential streets to most vehicle traffic
- The Urbanist | 6 May 2020 | 130 Miles of Open Streets is Just What the Doctor Ordered
- Seattle Bike Blog | 5 May 2020 | Crowdsourced map highlights 130 miles of potential Stay Healthy Streets
- West Seattle Blog | 4 May 2020 | Signs up for added “Stay Healthy Streets” in east West Seattle; new suggestion for where to add others
- The Stranger | 27 April 2020 | In Seattle, Good Reviews (So Far) for Closing Streets to Help Social Distancing
- The Urbanist | 24 April 2020 | City Rolls Out Stay Healthy Streets in Three More Neighborhoods
- Seattle Times | 18 April 2020 | Seattle could open 15 miles of streets for pedestrians, bicyclists by banning cars during the coronavirus outbreak
- The Stranger | 17 April 2020 | Seattle Will Let Pedestrians Take Back Some Streets This Weekend
- The Urbanist | 17 April 2020 | SDOT Opens ‘Stay Healthy Streets’ to Pedestrians and Cyclists
- Seattle Bike Blog | 17 April 2020 | Talking open streets during COVID-19 with Gordon and Clara from SNG
- Seattle DOT Blog | 16 April 2020 | Announcing Stay Healthy Streets
- The Stranger | 15 April 2020 | Slog: People are walking more
- Seattle Times | 15 April 2020 | Are you walking more during the coronavirus pandemic? Here’s what people are noticing and what they say can be improved
- KUOW | 13 April 2020 | Parks and sidewalks too crowded? Maybe pedestrians should get space on some streets
- KOMO News | 11 April 2020 | Seattle adjusts traffic light wait times with less cars on the road
- Seattle Bike Blog | 9 April 2020 | Seattle Neighborhood Greenways outlines three-pronged approach to making streets work better for people during the outbreak
- The Stranger | 8 April 2020 | Ideas Roll In for Combating ‘Dangerous Crowding’ on Seattle’s Trails and Sidewalks
- The Urbanist | 18 February 2020 | Planter Boxes in South Seattle Bike Lane Removed After Complaints
- Seattle DOT Blog | 3 February 2020 | Fulfilling our promise to build a connected Center City Bike Network
2019
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 11 December 2019 | Rest of Seattle set to join Capitol Hill with 25 MPH speed limits as traffic deaths rise
- Seattle Times | 10 December 2019 | Seattle to lower speed limits amid rising number of traffic deaths
- Queen Anne & Magnolia News | 4 December 2019 | Thomas Street getting greener design
- KING 5 News | 20 November 2019 | Vehicle, pedestrian crashes up in Western Washington with less daylight
- Next City | 30 October 2019 | DIY Initiative Addresing Lack of Seattle Sidewalks Becomes a City Pilot
- Seattle Times | 14 October 2019 | Lake City ‘touchstone’ Maria Banda died in crosswalk that community had long advocated to improve
- KUOW | 9 October 2019 | West Coast cities lauded for curbing carbon — except Seattle. Here’s why
- KIRO 7 | 30 September 2019 | San Diego’s scooter problems that Seattle will want to avoid
- KUOW | 27 September 2019 | Not driving a bus? Then stay out of these lanes
- KING 5 News | 3 September 2019 | Seattle Council votes to expand bike lanes and add 3,000 bike parking spaces
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 3 September 2019 | Superilles for Seattle? Council member Mosqueda has her eye on 6-block pedestrian- and cyclist-first ‘superblock’ for Capitol Hill
- Queen Anne & Magnolia News | 20 July 2019 | Playing in the Street: Queen Anne Greenways brings back community-building program
- KOMO News | 29 June 2020 | Bike share rider critically hurt in bus crash at notoriously busy Denny & Stewart
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 17 June 2019 | Hundreds rally at Seattle’s Ride For Safe Streets
- KOMO | 16 June 2019 | Hundreds rally for more Seattle bike lanes in ‘Ride for Safe Streets’
- The Stranger | 1 May 2019 | A Green, Affordable, and Urbanist Seattle Doesn’t Have to Be a Fantasy
- Real Change News | 24 April 2019 | Transportation accessibility needs to be for everyone
- Seattle Bike Blog | 23 April 2019 | Padelford: Let’s build a better bike movement
- Seattle Times | 2 April 2019 | Amid delayed projects, SDOT proposal would remove 34 bike lanes from near-term work plan
- KUOW | 1 April 2019 | Seattle backpedals on bike lane plans
- KIRO 7 | 26 February 2019 | Cyclist dies on Rainier Avenue as neighborhood keeps waiting for safer street
- Seattle Times | 15 February 2019 | ‘B’ grades all around? Assessing the response to February’s historic Seattle-area snowstorms
- Seattle Channel | 8 February 2019 | City Inside/Out: Seattle Squeeze
- Streetsblog USA | 17 January 2019 | Biking Way Up in Seattle During Highway Closure
2018
- Seattle Weekly | 11 December 2018 | Climate Action Coalition Urges City to Respond to Seattle Squeeze
- Crosscut | 11 December 2018 | As Seattle’s traffic doom looms, some see a silver lining
- KOMO News | 19 November 2018 | Plan to shift money from Seattle school safety program draws ire of community group
- Crosscut | 16 November 2018 | Unwilling to wait 1,800 years for sidewalks, Seattle residents experiment
- Seattle P-I | 16 November 2018 | Seattle group to gather people affected by traffic violence for memorial
- Seattle Times | 15 November 2018 | “Day of Remembrance” gathering Sunday for Seattle crash victims
- Seattle Times | 12 November 2018 | Seattle budget proposal: Divert $2.7 million in red-light fines from safe-school projects
- Seattle Magazine | 4 November 2018 | Seattle’s Most Influential People of 2018: The Next Generation
- KUOW | 23 October 2018 | The uphill sprint to build a protected bike lane network in downtown Seattle
- Seattle Weekly | 23 October 2018 | New Climate Action Coalition Targets Seattle’s Congestion Crisis
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 19 October 2018 | Here’s your chance to help shape new Pike/Pine protected bike lanes
- Seattle Times | 15 October 2018 | Transfers at Husky Stadium station were ‘horrendous,’ for some users, so U District community devised a plan for its future stop
- KUOW | 15 October 2018 | Should some streets only be for pedestrians? These U-District advocates think so
- Seattle Bike Blog | 27 September 2018 | Disappointing bike commute data is ‘neither surprising nor inevitable
- The Urbanist | 6 September 2018 | Eleven Ways Adaptive Signals Frustrate, Discourage, and Endanger People Who Walk
- KOMO | 23 August 2018 | Seattle steps up improvements to intersection, Rainier Ave. after 2 girls get hit by car
- Seattle Times | 22 August 2018 | 2 girls were hit by a car on Seattle’s dangerous Rainier Avenue. Here’s what the city is doing about it
- KING 5 – New Day Northwest | 21 August 2018 | AARP’s Community Challenge Grant empowers organization to better their communities
- Seattle Channel | 15 August 2018 | Clara Cantor, speaking with Citizen University TV about community advocacy
- Sightline | 10 August 2018 | Growing Seattle ups the ante on green and complete streets
- Public News Service | 9 August 2018 | Wash. Projects Receive Grants to Make Communities More Livable
- The Urbanist | 24 July 2018 | City Council Assigns Desired Timelines for Basic Bike Network Spokes
- The Urbanist | 20 July 2018 | How SDOT’s Plans for Green Lake and Wallingford Can Go From Good to Great
- Curbed Seattle | 19 July 2018 | Seattle City Council looks toward connected downtown bike lanes by 2020
- KEXP Presents Mind Over Matters | 16 July 2018 | Sustainability Segment: Gordon Padelford
- Seattle Times | 8 June 2018 | Seattle must deliver on promised transit, sidewalk and bike projects
- KING 5 | 15 May 2018 | $930 million Seattle transportation levy short on money
- Seattle Transit Blog | 5 January 2018 | Collision Rate Rises in Seattle as Traffic Volume Remain Steady.