When the pandemic struck last year, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways jumped to action. We set aside an ambitious slate of advocacy priorities to respond to immediate community needs—including pushing for Stay Healthy Streets for safe social distancing.  
 
The upsurge in families and friends biking and walking in our neighborhood streets this past year has been amazing. Perhaps you've had a chance to enjoy the relaxed comfort and freedom of walking or biking along the Lake Washington Boulevard or Alki Point Keep Moving Streets? 

Because it’s an election year for Mayor and the two citywide Council races, candidates and our communities will be engaged in a civic conversation about our city’s future. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways' citywide coalition, 15 neighborhood groups strong, will bring three big ideas to this conversation:

• People should be able to walk (or roll) to access the key goods and services of their daily lives, a concept called the 15-Minute City.
• All of Seattle’s neighborhoods should be accessible by safe, convenient—and connected—bike routes, a major campaign we’re calling UnGap The Map, to push the city to finish what it has only begun to implement in fits and starts.
• We are backing a slate of transformative, pro-equity, anti-racist policy recommendations from our all-BIPOC Whose Streets? Our Streets! workgroup for how our streets can be safe, thriving places without the use of armed police.

These ideas represent a bold re-imagining of what it can be like, and ought to be like, to move through public streets and spaces in Seattle. Play a role in this bold vision with your GiveBIG contribution today!