Here's what we're focused on right now.
Improvements to SW Campus Dr & 19th Ave SW
This intersection is a highly used by pedestrians and cyclists, especially kids from the neighboring apartment complex and TAF@Saghalie. At least four kids have been struck in this intersection by drivers since October 2025. Looking back further, that number jumps to nine people struck since 2017.
These collisions largely occurred when drivers struck pedestrians (in this case, children) crossing in the crosswalk during a left turn.
The city must make immediate improvements to this intersection that prioritizes the safety of those crossing.
Increased Funding for Neighborhood Traffic Safety Projects
The city dedicates $100,000 towards traffic calming improvements to residential neighborhood streets for its Neighborhood Traffic Safety Program.
The NTS Program is designed to provide existing Federal Way residential neighborhoods opportunities to control traffic speeds, reduce cut-through traffic and improve documented pedestrian and vehicular safety issues. This program is used to evaluate the need for speed humps, speed tables, raised crosswalks, traffic circles, speed limit reduction, and other traffic calming measures.
These projects are essential for traffic calming and improving pedestrian safety, especially outside of our schools and in neighborhoods that don't have existing sidewalks. $100,000 only covers a handful of projects each year depending on scope and size. Grants and other funding sources are also scarce when it comes to residential street improvements, so it is on the city to fund these essential improvements.
Our city uses the millions in revenue it raises from red light and speed cameras in the city largely for Police Department officer positions instead of infrastructure improvements that make our streets safer to walk and roll on.
As the city writes its next bi-annum budget for 2027 - 2028, it must dedicate more funding to this program, at least $200,000 total, to make our neighborhood streets safer and have the funding necessary to react to unsafe streets.
Tracking City Hall
None of the above happens without engagement in the budget process, the council agenda, the planning commission, and, ultimately, elected leaders who share and demonstrate these values.
We follow what's being decided and when, and make it easy to show up when your voice can make a difference.
We also review project details to ensure the city is prioritizing the safety of its most vulnerable road users.
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With 100,000+ residents, this city is large and diverse with unsafe streets in every corner. There are so many small and large issues to tackle, and we all benefit with safer streets.
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