Neighborhood Greenways
Updated: May 2024
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 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:
- Ashworth Ave N (Ingraham High & Baldwin Elementary Schools)
- 6th Ave NW
- 28th Ave NW – Adams Elementary School
- Broadview-Thomson K-8 – 1st Ave NGW
- Maple Leaf Reservoir Park Connections
- Olympic Hills (Cedar Park Elementary) in NE Seattle
- Olympic View Elementary – 8th Ave NE in NE Seattle
- Pinehurst (Hazel Wolf K-8) in NE Seattle
Learn more about the growing Neighborhood Greenways Network:
- Central Ridge Phase 2 and Stevens Elementary School Connection
- Garfield High School to Leschi Elementary School Connection
- Washington Middle School Connection
- Thomas Street Redefined
- Alki Point Healthy Street
- Beacon Hill Elementary – 13th/14th Ave S
- Beacon Hill Neighborhood Greenway upgrade & Healthy Street
- Dunlap Elementary Extension (Othello Neighborhood Greenway & 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
- S Walden St (John Muir Elementary Connection) to Rainier Valley Neighborhood Greenway
- Wing Luke Elementary (New Holly Connection) to Kenyon Greenway
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.