Beacon Hill Healthy Street

Updated October 2025

What's Happening Now?

We are excited to announce that we are making the south segment of the Beacon Hill Healthy Street permanent! The Beacon Hill South Healthy Street includes:

  • 14th Ave S between South Dakota St and S Nevada St 
  • S Nevada St between 14th Ave S and 13th Ave S
  • 13th Ave S between S Nevada St and S Snoqualmie St
  • S Snoqualmie St between 13th Ave S and Corson Ave S
  • Corson Ave S between S Snoqualmie St and S Angeline St
  • 12th Ave S between S Angeline St and S Lucile St

The permanent Healthy Street will have the typical Healthy Street intersection treatments on each block, including Healthy Street signs, concrete sign bases and planters, and painted curb bulbs. The project also includes new speed cushions, stop signs, wayfinding elements, and safety upgrades at the intersection of 15th Ave S and S Dakota St. We’re in the early design phase and will share more information about the project design once available. 

Sign up for project email updates for the latest information! We’ll share more information about the permanent Healthy Street as we design the project and prepare for construction. Be sure to sign up for email updates to receive the latest information, including opportunities to maintain a Beacon Hill South Healthy Street planter!  

Picture of a street closed sign affixed to a planter and another street closed sign affixed to a standard concrete sign base

Example of a Healthy Street planter (left) and a standard concrete sign base (right).

We’ll see you at T’Challaween! We’re excited to participate in this year’s T’Challaween celebration on Oct. 25! SDOT staff will be there with give-aways, information about our projects, and of course – candy! Stop by to say hello and talk with our team. 

Project Map

a map showing the locations of permanent Healthy Streets in Beacon Hill

What are Healthy Streets? 

Healthy Streets are closed to pass-through traffic, but open to people walking, rolling, biking, or playing. They provide more space for people to use the street with the goal of improving community and individual health. Permanent Healthy Streets have:

  • Signs with concrete bases, planters, and painted curb bulbs at each intersection. We typically do not need to remove any legal street parking to make these intersection upgrades. The changes help improve visibility by preventing people from parking too close to the intersection. 
  • Other design features to calm traffic and improve safety for people walking, biking, and rolling. This can include features such as street markings, speed humps, stop signs, flashing beacons, and crosswalks.

Both Healthy Streets and Neighborhood Greenways have features to calm traffic and prioritize people walking, biking, and rolling. Neighborhood Greenways do not have the same signs and intersection features discouraging pass-through traffic used on Healthy Streets. Healthy Streets can also be used as Play Streets without needing a permit.   

You can learn more about the Healthy Streets and Neighborhood Greenways on our webpages. 

Design Elements

Neighborhood traffic calming  

We’ll be adding some speed cushions and stop signs to help calm traffic in the neighborhood and on the Healthy Street. This includes speed cushions near Maple Elementary School that we’re building in partnership with the Safe Routes to School Program.  

New Permanent School Street near Maple Elementary  

Maple Elementary has a School Street located on Corson Ave S between S Ferdinand St and S Shelton St. School Streets are open for students and adults walking, rolling, and biking and closed to pass-through traffic, including parents. They are designed to reduce traffic congestion in front of schools and encourage families to walk or bike to school or park a few blocks away and walk. To learn more about School Streets, visit our webpage.  

18th Ave S and S College St (completed)

  • New crossing lights, also known as Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons (RRFBs) 
  • New curbside push buttons for crossings
  • New raised curb
  • Marked crosswalks
  • Accessible pedestrian curb ramps
  • Drainage and stormwater improvements (in coordination with Seattle Public Utilities)  

Raised Curb

Before and After Photos of newly installed safety elements at 18th Ave S and S College St, including flashing crossing lights and ADA-accessible curb ramps

We added new crosswalks, flashing pedestrian crossing signs, and new accessible pedestrian ramps to the intersection of 18th Ave S and S College St (before and after pictures shown above). 

Beacon Ave S and S Hanford S (completed)

  • New marked crosswalks
  • New push buttons for pedestrian crossings
  • Accessible pedestrian ramps
  • New concrete curb bulbs with Healthy Street signage 

As part of the Beacon Hill Ave S and 15th Ave S Safety project, the intersection will also include: 

  • New floating bus stops on the east and west sides of Beacon Ave S.
  • Remove median islands and install c-curbs for the new protected bike lanes. 

A graphic map showing the locations of new Marked crosswalks, curbside push buttons for crossings, ADA Ramps, and concrete curb bulbs with Healthy Street signage at the intersection of Beacon Ave. S and S Hanford St.

What to expect during construction

We will let you know before construction of the permanent Healthy Street begins. During construction, you can expect:

  • Typical work hours from 7 AM to 5 PM. Work usually happens on weekdays but sometimes it can occur on weekends.
  • Noise and vibration
  • Dust and debris
  • Construction staging and parking impacts near the work sites
  • “No Parking” areas and other parking impacts
  • Crosswalk and sidewalk closures, with detours for people walking and biking
  • Roadway closures and detours for vehicle traffic
  • Tree trimming (for sign visibility)

Construction schedules can change due to things like weather and crew availability. We encourage you to sign up for email updates to get the most updated information on construction.

Schedule

Summer 2021: Community site walk and online survey to hear from people who live on or near  Healthy Streets

Spring 2022: Additional community outreach for intersection elements  

Fall 2022: Announcement that the north section of Beacon Hill Healthy Street will become permanent. The south section will need more review

Spring 2023: As early as Spring 2023, installation of new permanent Healthy Street signs on the north section of the Beacon Hill Healthy Street 

Spring-Summer 2023: Additional community outreach for the south section of Beacon Hill Healthy Street, from S Dakota St to S Lucile St

March 2024: Construction completed on safety enhancements at 18th Ave S and S College St

Fall 2025: Announcement that the south segment of the Beacon Hill Healthy Street will become permanent 

Materials

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Transportation

Adiam Emery, Interim Director
Address: 700 5th Ave, Suite 3800, Seattle, WA, 98104
Mailing Address: PO Box 34996, Seattle, WA, 98124-4996
Phone: (206) 684-7623
684-Road@seattle.gov

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