Updates

To celebrate the installation of bus lanes on Denny Way and to help commemorate our campaign, we decided to make bus plushies! Is your Boop a little lonely as your only transit plushie? Do you not even have a Boop and just need some more transit to cuddle in your life? Our bus plushie is…

Last year, Fix the L8 proved that Route 8 is not only slower than walking, but also slower than hopscotching, cha-cha-sliding, conga lining, and so much more. Less two weeks after taking office, Mayor Wilson, who joined us at last year’s race, signed her first executive order. It directed the Seattle Department of Transportation to…

Mayor Wilson and SDOT have revealed their proposal to finally Fix the L8 and we are extremely excited about it. It will come in two phases, with the western half including 3 blocks of new bus lanes west of 2nd Ave to be installed in May. The second half will quickly follow in August, including…

Fix the L8 has a huge announcement coming! Mayor Katie Wilson will soon unveil plans to Fix Route 8’s speed and reliability problems!! Join us at her press conference to show support for Route 8 improvements. Let’s show Seattle that transit riders are important and we’re ready for bus lanes now! Rally for the 8 Press Conference with Mayor WilsonWednesday,…

We're going to get out the red paint on Denny Way. #thisisyourcity [image or embed] — Mayor Katie B. Wilson (@mayorofseattle.bsky.social) January 26, 2026 at 4:38 PM We were beyond honored to have joined Mayor Katie Wilson in January in her signing of an executive order directing the Seattle Department of Transportation to install bus…

Happy fall, everybody! It’s been a busy past few months, here is what we’ve been up to since we hosted Race the L8! SDOT Rules out Bus Lanes In August, SDOT announced that they are ruling out bus lanes for now, saying that the impacts they would have on surrounding traffic would be too drastic.…

THANK YOU ALL so much for coming out to support us and race the L8 last week. We are blown away by the support we have received and can’t believe how many people showed up. Our favorite photos are here! If you took any good shots that you want to share, email us or tag us on Bluesky. This…

Hey Racers! I hope you’re ready to Race Route 8! Metro drivers have been practicing extra hard at smashing their brakes and beeping their horns to prepare for the race. I know we’re not as well funded or as practiced but I know we can make up for it in determination to go as fast…

Organizers are queuing up the next big push to Fix The L8 We need to continue to push the city and county to Fix the L8 — and we need you to do that. Three ways you can help: Last summer, Fix The L8 supporters sent over 1,000 letters to each Seattle city councilmember (Seattle…

Last summer, we sent over 1,000 letters to each City councilmember (who owns the roads) and County councilmember (who runs the buses/Metro) as well as directly to SDOT and we now know that SDOT is working on Fixing Route 8! Short Term (next ~year) In January, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) met with us…

Check out our op-ed in The Urbanist (by Nick Sattele) asking readers to sign the letter to fix Route 8. That’s why at Central Seattle Greenways, we’re partnering with the Transit Riders Union to launch our Fix The L8 campaign to get bus lanes on Denny Way in Uptown and SLU. Bus lanes have been…

Ryan Packer has another great article in The Urbanist about the upcoming repaving project for Denny Way, and how it is failing to make the needed changes to improve the corridor. Please give it a read!

Ryan Packer is an amazing transportation journalist in Seattle, and they have published an article in The Urbanist about Denny Way documenting the problems with the street and the Route 8 bus. Data from King County Metro shows that following Amazon’s shift toward more in-person work on May 1, on-time reliability on the Route 8…