Neighborhood Greenways
Updated: August 2024
Seattle is building a citywide network of Neighborhood Greenways, Healthy Streets, protected bike lanes, and trails that work together with funding for bike parking, encouragement programs, and safety education, to make bicycle riding a healthy and affordable travel option for people of all ages and abilities.
Continue reading to learn more about neighborhood greenways and to discover greenway projects happening near you and the destinations around the city that they can connect you to!
What's a Neighborhood Greenway?
Neighborhood Greenways are safer, calmer neighborhood streets for you, your family, and your neighbors where we make people walking and biking 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
- Crosswalks, curb bulbs, flashing beacons, or traffic signals
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
- Signs and pavement markings to help people find their way
Active Projects
Stay up to date on greenway projects happening in your neighborhood when you subscribe to our new Neighborhood Greenways email lists:
- 6th Ave NW
- 28th Ave NW – Adams Elementary School
- Ashworth Ave N (Ingraham High & Baldwin Elementary Schools)
- Broadview-Thomson K-8 – 1st Ave NGW
Learn more about the growing Neighborhood Greenways Network in Northwest Seattle!
- Ashworth Ave N (Ingraham High & Baldwin Elementary Schools)
- Maple Leaf Reservoir Park Connections
- Olympic Hills (Cedar Park Elementary)
- Olympic View Elementary – 8th Ave NE
- Pinehurst (Hazel Wolf K-8)
Learn more about the growing Neighborhood Greenways Network in Northeast Seattle!
- Central Ridge Phase 2 in Central Seattle
- Garfield High School to Leschi Elementary School Connection
- Stevens Elementary School Connection
- Thomas Street Redefined
- Washington Middle School Connection
Learn more about the growing Neighborhood Greenways Network in Central Seattle!
- Beacon Hill Elementary – 13th/14th Ave S
- Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway upgrade & Healthy Street
- Dunlap Elementary Extension (Othello Neighborhood Greenway & Healthy Street)
- S Walden St (John Muir Elementary Connection) to Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway
- Wing Luke Elementary (New Holly Connection) to Kenyon Greenway
Learn more about the growing Neighborhood Greenways Network in Southeast Seattle!
- Alki Point Healthy Street
- Beacon Hill Elementary – 13th/14th Ave S
- Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway upgrade & Healthy Street
- Georgetown Loop (Neighborhood Greenway & Healthy Street)
- South Park (Healthy Street, Neighborhood Greenway & Trail Connections)
- Lafayette Elementary & Madison Middle Schools Connection – 45th Ave SW
Learn more about the growing Neighborhood Greenways Network in Southwest Seattle!
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.