Is it the 26th Ave SW Neighborhood Greenway?
Or the Delridge Alternate Speedway?
This is a two-way residential street. It was West Seattle’s first neighborhood greenway, intended to be low speed with low volumes, safe for walking and biking, with features to discourage cars from using it instead of the parallel arterial. Not working!
This photo, on a typical morning this week, shows car drivers trying to pass a solid backup of other drivers, endangering oncoming bike riders and everyone else. The residents of the area are fed up, whether walking, riding or driving in their neighborhood.
We’ve been asking SDOT for a traffic diverter at 26th SW & SW Genesee to discourage the northbound cut-through traffic to Andover. So far, unsuccessfully.
If you agree, please send SDOT and our elected officials this message:
Cut-through traffic is out of control on 26th Avenue SW. It’s not safe to walk across the street, bike, or back a car out of a driveway. This street is no longer working as a low speed, low volume Neighborhood Greenway. Instead, it is has become a speedway for drivers avoiding Delridge Way traffic. We need a traffic diverter at 26th SW & SW Genesee to keep northbound car drivers from cutting through on 26th SW to SW Andover.
Please include this diverter as part of the RapidRide H Multimodal Corridor project’s 26th Ave SW Greenway improvements.
DelridgeTransit@seattle.gov
Lisa.Herbold@seattle.gov
Lorena.González@seattle.gov
Mike.OBrien@seattle.gov
Jenny.Durkan@seattle.gov
Sam.Zimbabwe@seattle.gov
Monica.DeWald@seattle.gov
