14th Ave S Reimagined
November 2025
What's Happening Now?
Exciting changes are coming to 14th Ave S in South Park! We're engaging with South Park community to reimagine what a safe and walkable 14th Ave S could look like. This project's goals include:
- Reduce crashes and risky behavior on 14th Ave S
- Ease truck and bus movements at pinch points and key turns
- Encourage walking, biking, and rolling in South Park
- Provide a high-quality streetscape to part of the city that has been historically disinvested
- Provide gateway signage on both ends of the project corridor
- Provide smooth connections for people biking to the South Park Bridge, Green River Trail Extension, and other bikeways
- Coordinate and future-proof this project with the ongoing Reconnect South Park vision
Project Overview
SDOT’s upcoming project on 14th Avenue S. will improve safety and mobility in an area of Seattle historically disconnected from other neighborhoods and disproportionately impacted by traffic collisions. This project creates a safer and more comfortable environment for people walking, rolling, biking, and driving through the primary north-south artery in South Park, connecting residents with businesses and community assets. This project will build a shared-use path on the east side of the street.
Project Area
Preferred Alternative
The preferred alternative is the currently favored version of the project. Community feedback will continue to inform and shape the project as it moves towards design and construction. The currently planned configuration will add a continuous multi-use path on the east side of the street. The preferred alternative will do this by converting the off-peak parking lanes into a center turn lane and a multi-use trail. It will also change the lane widths and intersection configurations to support safer freight and bus turns.
Project Background
14th Ave S is a corridor with a history of speeding, sideswipes, and vehicles failing to make the turn at Cloverdale and 14th Avenue S. Tragically, this corridor has been the site of two recent pedestrian fatalities, underlining the need for the road to be improved.
Additionally, South Park is soon to be a gap in the regional trail network following the recent completion of the Georgetown to South Park project to the north and King County’s upcoming Green River Trail Extension project to the south. Completing a path link along 14th Ave S ensure that the street is ready for more people walking and biking to and through South Park.
Project Schedule
Funding
The project is partially funded by the 2024 Seattle Transportation Levy.