Support the Georgetown to South Park Trail Part 1
The Covid-19 crisis caused a city-wide funding shortage. Which created concern about potential cuts to previously funded community projects. Duwamish Valley Safe Streets started a campaign to highlight the lack of connectivity in the Duwamish Valley and ensure that this essential community project receives the funding that it deserves. This Storytelling Project for the Georgetown to South Park Trail was created in partnership with Duwamish Valley community members, pedestrian and cyclist advocates, and volunteers from around the city.
After months of letters of support, impact statements, donations, and this community video above. Seattle City Council voted to fund $5.2 Million dollars to the Georgetown to South Park Trail. This is an incredible win for accessibility in the Duwamish Valley! Building on the Georgetown to South Park Trail will lay the foundation to create a bike route from Georgetown to Downtown. Providing a safe and accessible bike connection for the 30,000 people commuting to and from the Duwamish Valley every day. This will also fill in a missing link/gap in Seattle’s Basic Bike Network.
Duwamish Valley Safe Streets would like to thank Councilmembers Herbold and Morales for all their help and support for preserving the funding for this important community-based project, None of this could have been accomplished without the advocacy efforts of the Duwamish Valley community members in partnership with bicycle and pedestrian advocates from around the city. Together we can build a stronger, united, and healthier Duwamish Valley!
See more information and project background about the Georgetown to South Park Trail below.
Georgetown South Park Trail
The Georgetown South Park Trail will be a safe walking and biking route connecting people with local businesses, services, and destinations on both sides of our river.
Seattle Department of Transportation’s Fact Sheet and Webpage about this project.
Hoja informativa del proyecto del Departamento de Transporte de Seattle.
Bảng thông tin dự án của Bộ giao thông vận tải Seattle.
Georgetown and South Park neighborhoods lay side-by-side, connected by the Duwamish River, common history, shared needs and environmental concerns. For more than 20 years, people living and working in both communities have called for a safe comfortable route for people walking, biking and rolling between our neighborhoods.
In 2017 community and business stakeholder groups successfully worked with Seattle City Council to secure funding for planning, public outreach and partial design for the “Georgetown to South Park Trail”. In 2018, Seattle Department of Transportation (SDoT) began studying the feasibility of various routes. SDoT will be conducting outreach and collecting input from the community in June and July and plans to complete a 30% design for the GT+SP Trail in the beginning of 2020.
Duwamish Valley Safe Streets is building awareness about this design process, and ensuring a diversity of community voices are providing input into the trail’s design. Our goal is to arrive at a community-supported design for the Georgetown South Park Trail that works well for everyone who walks, bikes, uses transit, drives, shops, plays, studies, owns a business, and works in and between these two neighborhoods.
Join your neighbors to help BUILD the Georgetown + South Park TRAIL!
These organizations have declared their support for building the Trail, email us to let us know that your organization would like to add its name to the list of supporters!
Georgetown Open Space Committee
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