Neighborhood Greenways
Updated: May 2023
Seattle is building a network of neighborhood greenways, protected bike lanes, and trails that work together with funding for bike parking, encouragement programs, and safety education, to make biking a healthy, affordable travel option for people of all ages and abilities.
What's a Neighborhood Greenway?
Neighborhood Greenways are safer, calmer neighborhood streets where people walking and biking are the priority. These streets work together with trails and protected bike lanes to provide connected routes to bring people to the places they want and need to go as part of Seattle’s all ages and abilities bicycle network.
Neighborhood greenways are defined by three elements:
1. Safer Crossings of Busy Streets
- Easier for people of all ages and abilities to cross busy streets
- Make drivers more aware of people walking and biking
2. Walking and Biking Priority
- Speed humps to calm traffic
- Stop signs for side streets crossing the greenway
3. Wayfinding
- Identify the street as a Neighborhood Greenway so people know what to expect
- Help people walking and biking find their way
Active Projects
Stay up to date on greenway projects happening in your neighborhood:
- Alki Point
- Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway upgrade & Healthy Street
- Camp Long Connection
- Georgetown Loop (Neighborhood Greenway & Healthy Street)
- Highland Park Elementary School Connection Phase 2
- Mountains to Sound Trail Connection
- South Park
- SRTS (Lafayette & Madison Connection)
- Central Ridge Phase 2
- Melrose Promenade
- SRTS (Stevens ES Connection)
- SRTS (Washington MS Connection)
- SRTS (Garfield to Leschi)
- Thomas Street Redefined
- 6th Ave NW
- Ballard Neighborhood Greenway upgrade & Healthy Street
- Interurban to Greenwood Connection (N 83rd St)
- Little Brook
- Maple Leaf NGW Connections
- SRTS (Adams ES)
- SRTS (Broadview Thompson K-8 Phase 1)
- SRTS (Hazel Wolf K-8) Pinehurst Connection
- SRTS (Ingraham HS & Northgate ES)
- SRTS (Olympic Hills Extension)
- SRTS (Olympic Hills to Cedar Park)
- SRTS (Olympic View - 8th Ave NE)
Funding
Approved by voters in November 2015, the 9-year, $930 million Levy to Move Seattle provides funding to improve safety for all travelers, maintain our streets and bridges, and invest in reliable, affordable travel options for a growing city.
The levy provides roughly 30% of the City's transportation budget and replaces the 9-year, $365 Bridging the Gap levy approved by voters in 2006.
The levy aims to take care of the basics, while also investing in the future with improvements to move more people and goods in and around a growing Seattle. An oversight committee made up of Seattle residents, appointed by the Mayor and City Council, will monitor levy expenses and revenues, review program and project priorities, and make recommendations to the Mayor and City Council on how to spend levy proceeds.