Safe Routes to School: Broadview-Thomson & Cedar Park Elementary

Updated June 11, 2024

Project Overview

The Safe Routes to School Program strives to reduce barriers and equitable access for school students by improving walking and biking connections to schools by ensuring sidewalks, marked crosswalks, and asphalt pathways have positive impacts in community. This project focuses on enhancing connections to Broadview Thomson K-8 and Cedar Park Elementary School, both of which are high-ranking priority schools.

Project Locations 

The scope of work will be installed in two project areas: 

1. Broadview-Thomson and Greenwood Ave N 
2. Cedar Park in Lake City 

Broadview Thomson K-8 School

SDOT began developing designs for new sidewalks along Greenwood Ave N (N 117th St to N 130th St) connecting to Broadview Thomson K-8 in 2018 with support from the SPU Broadview Partnership Program. After the Greenwood Sidewalks Project reached 90% design, federal Safe Routes to School grant funding was awarded to the northern end of the project area (N 125th St and N 130th St) along with a new north-south neighborhood greenway on 1st Ave NW. Project elements include:

• New sidewalks on both sides of Greenwood Ave N between N 125th St and N 130th St
• Neighborhood greenway on 1st Ave NW and Palatine Ave N between N 110th St and N 130th St
• Neighborhood greenway on 1st Ave NW and N 132nd St between Greenwood Ave N and N 137th St
• Sidewalk widening on the west side of Greenwood Ave N between N 132nd St, and the mid-block pedestrian signal to the south

Cedar Park Elementary School

The scope of work for this project is based on Safe Routes to School, Pedestrian Master Plan (PMP), Neighborhood Greenway, Bicycle Master Plan (BMP), and Vision Zero prioritization criteria as well as input from project outreach and complete streets elements:

• New sidewalk on the south side of NE 135th St between Lake City Way NE and 35th Ave NE

• New neighborhood greenway on NE 135th St between 27th Ave NE and 37th Ave NE with associated treatments:

1. • Asphalt pathway connecting the street ends on NE 135th St between 27th Ave NE and 30th Ave NE

   • New marked crosswalks on both arterial legs of 30th Ave NE & NE 135th St

   • New marked crosswalk with RRFB on the north leg of 35th Ave NE & NE 135th St

What is a Neighborhood Greenway?

Neighborhood greenways are safer, calm residential streets for you, your family and neighbors that make people walking and biking the priority. On streets with low car volumes and speeds a greenway can:

• Improve safety

• Help people cross busy streets

• Discourage cars from using neighborhood streets to avoid main streets

• Keep speeds low

Neighborhood greenways can include:

• easier crossings of busy streets with crosswalks, flashing beacons, or crossing signals

• speed humps to calm traffic

• stop signs for side streets crossing the greenway

• signs and pavement markings to help people find their way

• 20 mph speed limit signs

Funding

This project was funded by WSDOT Safe Routes to School Grant, New Sidewalks Neighborhood Greenways and SPU Broadview Partnership CIP.

Project Library

• Project Mailer–Cedar Park (January 2024)
• Project Mailer–Broadview-Thomson (December 2023)
• Fact Sheet (March 2022)
• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Documentation
  • Proposed Area of Potential Effects (APE)
  • Environmental Justice Matrix
  • Categorical Exclusion Form (signed)
  • Wetland Technical Memo
• State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) Determination of Nonsignificance