Seattle residents are organizing to recommend less-traveled roads in their neighborhoods for development as greenways. Greenways are designated streets—often parallel to arterials but much quieter—that offer everyone from cyclists to pedestrians and people in wheelchairs safer ways to get around without having to drive. The streets are outfitted with signs, speed bumps, greenery and other traffic-calming measures, such as crossings and reduced speed limits. This year, the Seattle Department of Transportation will build seven miles of greenways, the core of a network that will eventually connect greenways across the city. Greenways are being targeted to a segment of the populace known as the “willing but wary"—people who are unwilling to risk biking in bike lanes on streets with heavy traffic.

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