See our work in the news! It takes a people-powered movement to make all of this happen.
Through the rigorous dedication of our staff and local neighborhood groups, we've been able to reach many milestones some once thought impossible. Not us! We believe in this work and in its potential to save and improve the lives of many throughout Seattle. With your support, we can keep pushing forward.
But first, in order to know where we're going, you have to know where we've been...
2022
- Seattle Times | 2 August 2022 | Prevent traffic deaths with proven solutions for Seattle streets
- Seattle Times | 30 June 2022 | Seattle is back on lists of best U.S. biking cities. Experts explain what cyclists need for a smoother ride
- The Stranger | 23 May 2022 | Central Greenways was out pushing for improvements on 12th Ave
- Seattle Times | 21 May 2022 | Seattle traffic deaths show no sign of slowing as second bicyclist fatally struck this year
- Governing | 20 April 2022 | The Lessons Seattle Learned After a Year of E-ScootersWhat Seattle learned from one year of electric scooters
- Seattle Times | 18 April 2022 | Road rage, injury at Pike Place Market comes amid debate over limiting vehicle traffic
- Seattle Times | 25 March 2022 | $50M experiment aims to make Aurora Avenue more welcoming for bicyclists, pedestrians
- Outside The Beltway | 20 February 2022 | Are Helmet Laws Racist?
- New York Times | 18 February 2022 | Seattle Bike Helmet Rule Is Dropped Amid Racial Justice Concerns
- The Urbanist | 4 February 2022 | State Should Invest $99 Million to Address SR-99’s Many Problems
- KUOW | 24 January 2022 | Pedestrian deaths climb in Seattle, despite city’s pledge to eliminate them
2021
- Seattle Times | 13 July 2021 | University District builds new outdoor-dining spaces with great food options close by
- South Seattle Emerald | 6 July 2021 | District 2 bears the brunt of Seattle’s traffic deaths
- Seattle Times | 6 July 2021| The push to make Seattle’s Aurora Avenue safer for all
- King 5 | 5 July 2021| Neighbors, businesses look to reimagine Aurora Avenue in Seattle
- South Seattle Emerald |30 June 2021| SDOT Plans to Close Lake Washington Boulevard to Cars on Weekends Through September
- South Seattle Emerald |27 May 2021| Lake Washington Boulevard Closed Memorial Day Weekend, Summer Plans Not Decided
- Seattle Times |22 Feb 2021| Racial disparities prompt calls to repeal King County’s bicycle helmet law
- Seattle Met |17 May 2021| Are Seattle’s Cafe Streets Here for Good?
2020
- The Stranger |30 December 2020| The War On Cars Enters its 135th Year
- Crosscut | 17 November 2020 | Pandemic streets showed the promise of car-free Seattle
- KUOW | 23 October 2020 | Lake Washington Boulevard has reopened to cars — but the city’s weighing a permanent closure
- KUOW | 5 October 2 | Seattle ramps up pandemic street closures
- Seattle Bike Blog | 1 July 2020 | What could traffic enforcement look like with no or fewer armed police? SNG task force wants to find out
- CityMetric | 24 June 2020 | Seattle’s swift street closures show the highs and lows of rushing the process
- Eater Seattle | 5 June 2020 | Restaurant Proposes Capitol Hill Street Plaza in Anticipation of Outdoor Dining Reopening
- Transportation Choices Coalition | 4 June 2020 | Transit Chat: Multimodal Meetup
- The Urbanist | 2 June 2020 | City Bypasses Beg Buttons in a Victory for Advocates
- The C is for Crank | 28 May 2020 | COVID-19 Has Sparked Interest in Car-Free Streets. Will It Last?
- Huffington Post | 27 May 2020 | Coronavirus Has Sparked Interest in Car-Free Streets. Will It Last?
- E & E News | 26 May 2020 | Emissions: Commuters are adapting to the virus. What it means for CO2
- KUOW | 19 May 2020 | Not all closed Seattle streets will stay closed after the pandemic
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 13 May 2020 | Set to become permanent part of neighborhood, here’s how people are using the Central District’s Stay Healthy Streets
- Governing Magazine | 8 May 2020 | Seattle Will Keep Some Streets Closed Even After Coronavirus
- Seattle Times | 7 May 2020 | Seattle will permanently close 20 miles of residential streets to most vehicle traffic
- The Urbanist | 6 May 2020 | 130 Miles of Open Streets is Just What the Doctor Ordered
- Seattle Bike Blog | 5 May 2020 | Crowdsourced map highlights 130 miles of potential Stay Healthy Streets
- West Seattle Blog | 4 May 2020 | Signs up for added “Stay Healthy Streets” in east West Seattle; new suggestion for where to add others
- The Stranger | 27 April 2020 | In Seattle, Good Reviews (So Far) for Closing Streets to Help Social Distancing
- The Urbanist | 24 April 2020 | City Rolls Out Stay Healthy Streets in Three More Neighborhoods
- Seattle Times | 18 April 2020 | Seattle could open 15 miles of streets for pedestrians, bicyclists by banning cars during the coronavirus outbreak
- The Stranger | 17 April 2020 | Seattle Will Let Pedestrians Take Back Some Streets This Weekend
- The Urbanist | 17 April 2020 | SDOT Opens ‘Stay Healthy Streets’ to Pedestrians and Cyclists
- Seattle Bike Blog | 17 April 2020 | Talking open streets during COVID-19 with Gordon and Clara from SNG
- Seattle DOT Blog | 16 April 2020 | Announcing Stay Healthy Streets
- The Stranger | 15 April 2020 | Slog: People are walking more
- Seattle Times | 15 April 2020 | Are you walking more during the coronavirus pandemic? Here’s what people are noticing and what they say can be improved
- KUOW | 13 April 2020 | Parks and sidewalks too crowded? Maybe pedestrians should get space on some streets
- KOMO News | 11 April 2020 | Seattle adjusts traffic light wait times with less cars on the road
- Seattle Bike Blog | 9 April 2020 | Seattle Neighborhood Greenways outlines three-pronged approach to making streets work better for people during the outbreak
- The Stranger | 8 April 2020 | Ideas Roll In for Combating ‘Dangerous Crowding’ on Seattle’s Trails and Sidewalks
- The Urbanist | 18 February 2020 | Planter Boxes in South Seattle Bike Lane Removed After Complaints
- Seattle DOT Blog | 3 February 2020 | Fulfilling our promise to build a connected Center City Bike Network
2019
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 11 December 2019 | Rest of Seattle set to join Capitol Hill with 25 MPH speed limits as traffic deaths rise
- Seattle Times | 10 December 2019 | Seattle to lower speed limits amid rising number of traffic deaths
- Queen Anne & Magnolia News | 4 December 2019 | Thomas Street getting greener design
- KING 5 News | 20 November 2019 | Vehicle, pedestrian crashes up in Western Washington with less daylight
- Next City | 30 October 2019 | DIY Initiative Addresing Lack of Seattle Sidewalks Becomes a City Pilot
- Seattle Times | 14 October 2019 | Lake City ‘touchstone’ Maria Banda died in crosswalk that community had long advocated to improve
- KUOW | 9 October 2019 | West Coast cities lauded for curbing carbon — except Seattle. Here’s why
- KIRO 7 | 30 September 2019 | San Diego’s scooter problems that Seattle will want to avoid
- KUOW | 27 September 2019 | Not driving a bus? Then stay out of these lanes
- KING 5 News | 3 September 2019 | Seattle Council votes to expand bike lanes and add 3,000 bike parking spaces
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 3 September 2019 | Superilles for Seattle? Council member Mosqueda has her eye on 6-block pedestrian- and cyclist-first ‘superblock’ for Capitol Hill
- Queen Anne & Magnolia News | 20 July 2019 | Playing in the Street: Queen Anne Greenways brings back community-building program
- KOMO News | 29 June 2020 | Bike share rider critically hurt in bus crash at notoriously busy Denny & Stewart
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 17 June 2019 | Hundreds rally at Seattle’s Ride For Safe Streets
- KOMO | 16 June 2019 | Hundreds rally for more Seattle bike lanes in ‘Ride for Safe Streets’
- The Stranger | 1 May 2019 | A Green, Affordable, and Urbanist Seattle Doesn’t Have to Be a Fantasy
- Real Change News | 24 April 2019 | Transportation accessibility needs to be for everyone
- Seattle Bike Blog | 23 April 2019 | Padelford: Let’s build a better bike movement
- Seattle Times | 2 April 2019 | Amid delayed projects, SDOT proposal would remove 34 bike lanes from near-term work plan
- KUOW | 1 April 2019 | Seattle backpedals on bike lane plans
- KIRO 7 | 26 February 2019 | Cyclist dies on Rainier Avenue as neighborhood keeps waiting for safer street
- Seattle Times | 15 February 2019 | ‘B’ grades all around? Assessing the response to February’s historic Seattle-area snowstorms
- Seattle Channel | 8 February 2019 | City Inside/Out: Seattle Squeeze
- Streetsblog USA | 17 January 2019 | Biking Way Up in Seattle During Highway Closure
2018
- Seattle Weekly | 11 December 2018 | Climate Action Coalition Urges City to Respond to Seattle Squeeze
- Crosscut | 11 December 2018 | As Seattle’s traffic doom looms, some see a silver lining
- KOMO News | 19 November 2018 | Plan to shift money from Seattle school safety program draws ire of community group
- Crosscut | 16 November 2018 | Unwilling to wait 1,800 years for sidewalks, Seattle residents experiment
- Seattle P-I | 16 November 2018 | Seattle group to gather people affected by traffic violence for memorial
- Seattle Times | 15 November 2018 | “Day of Remembrance” gathering Sunday for Seattle crash victims
- Seattle Times | 12 November 2018 | Seattle budget proposal: Divert $2.7 million in red-light fines from safe-school projects
- Seattle Magazine | 4 November 2018 | Seattle’s Most Influential People of 2018: The Next Generation
- KUOW | 23 October 2018 | The uphill sprint to build a protected bike lane network in downtown Seattle
- Seattle Weekly | 23 October 2018 | New Climate Action Coalition Targets Seattle’s Congestion Crisis
- Capitol Hill Seattle Blog | 19 October 2018 | Here’s your chance to help shape new Pike/Pine protected bike lanes
- Seattle Times | 15 October 2018 | Transfers at Husky Stadium station were ‘horrendous,’ for some users, so U District community devised a plan for its future stop
- KUOW | 15 October 2018 | Should some streets only be for pedestrians? These U-District advocates think so
- Seattle Bike Blog | 27 September 2018 | Disappointing bike commute data is ‘neither surprising nor inevitable
- The Urbanist | 6 September 2018 | Eleven Ways Adaptive Signals Frustrate, Discourage, and Endanger People Who Walk
- KOMO | 23 August 2018 | Seattle steps up improvements to intersection, Rainier Ave. after 2 girls get hit by car
- Seattle Times | 22 August 2018 | 2 girls were hit by a car on Seattle’s dangerous Rainier Avenue. Here’s what the city is doing about it
- KING 5 – New Day Northwest | 21 August 2018 | AARP’s Community Challenge Grant empowers organization to better their communities
- Seattle Channel | 15 August 2018 | Clara Cantor, speaking with Citizen University TV about community advocacy
- Sightline | 10 August 2018 | Growing Seattle ups the ante on green and complete streets
- Public News Service | 9 August 2018 | Wash. Projects Receive Grants to Make Communities More Livable
- The Urbanist | 24 July 2018 | City Council Assigns Desired Timelines for Basic Bike Network Spokes
- The Urbanist | 20 July 2018 | How SDOT’s Plans for Green Lake and Wallingford Can Go From Good to Great
- Curbed Seattle | 19 July 2018 | Seattle City Council looks toward connected downtown bike lanes by 2020
- KEXP Presents Mind Over Matters | 16 July 2018 | Sustainability Segment: Gordon Padelford
- Seattle Times | 8 June 2018 | Seattle must deliver on promised transit, sidewalk and bike projects
- KING 5 | 15 May 2018 | $930 million Seattle transportation levy short on money
- Seattle Transit Blog | 5 January 2018 | Collision Rate Rises in Seattle as Traffic Volume Remain Steady.