You asked for more, you advocated for safer streets, now vote YES!

The biggest thing you can do this fall to make bicycling better in Seattle is to vote Yes on Proposition 1: The Transportation Levy to Move Seattle.  

In 2006, Seattle voters passed Bridging the Gap levy to help fund transportation improvements in the city in. Now, nine years later that levy is expiring at the end of the year. A lot has changed in Seattle over the course of those nine years. Our population is booming and businesses are flocking to set up shop.

Over the past nine years you’ve spoken out about the streets that are too dangerous to bike on with your children. You have demanded safe routes to school and spoken up about the need for a connected network of bikeways downtown. You’ve shown up to meetings, provided feedback at open houses and signed petitions for safer streets. You’ve helped shaped Seattle’s bold and innovative Bicycle Master Plan. Now, for the first time since 2007, we have the opportunity to fund the plan on schedule, but only if we pass the Move Seattle Levy.

The bicycle master plan laid out a vision for a connected network of bike routes in 2007, but the plan lacked funding. Between 2007-2011 only 43 percent of the network was built out, but most of that was now-outdated infrastructure like sharrows, which don’t make a huge impact on improving safety. Our community spoke out rallying for an update to Bicycle Master Plan in 2012. Over the course of two years, you shaped the next generation of the plan. Finally, in 2014 Seattle City Council  adopted our current plan which is bold, innovative and dare I say the best plan in the country.

All the meetings, all the safe routes to school work, all of it has been leading up to this levy. If you spoke up about what you wanted to see in the bike master plan you will see your hard work pay off in the passing of the Move Seattle Levy. Funding is that critical last piece to transform our plan into pavement. Right now, we need your help.

Of course the Move Seattle Levy is about more than bicycle infrastructure. Move Seattle incorporates all of the plans the city has been developing over the years, including the Pedestrian master plan, the Transit master plan and the Freight master plan. The Move Seattle plan is a composite of all of these plans that shows the implementation process. The Levy priorities reflect how we get around in Seattle, we bike, we use transit, we walk and we drive.

When we look at the history of Bridging the Gap we see the passing of these transportation levies as a way to build out a functional transportation system for Seattle. SDOT delivered on all their promises for Bridging the Gap. The Move Seattle Levy will be funded through property tax, about half of which will be covered by developers in the commercial sector. For the average homeowner in Seattle it will pen out to be around $12 per month more than the current levy. With strong oversight we know that this money will be used to take care of what we have, improve transit and make our city safer for people to get around — no matter their mode.

Your ballot should be arriving in your mailbox any day now, and the best thing that you can do right now to ensure that Seattle will invest in bicycle infrastructure for the next decade is to vote Yes on Proposition 1, the Move Seattle Levy.  

Please help us pass Proposition 1 by volunteering at our phone banks or door knocking days and invite your friends to join you.

Our next doorbell is tomorrow, Saturday Oct. 17. Join Mayor Ed Murray, Cascade's Connect Lake Union team and Feet First for a beautiful fall day to support Prop 1. 

Mayoral Doorbell Day

Saturday, October 17, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. 
Meet at Cal Anderson Park
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And don't forget to check out the rest of Cascade’s endorsements!