About Calm My Street
What is this?
This is a tool to document your desires for changes to our streets. And get them heard by the city of Seattle.
Calm My Street connects caring neighbors like you to safer streets advocates in your area, and helps us rally support for changing our unsafe roads.
How does this help?
You document ... then ... We organize ... then ... we talk to Seattle City Hall and you amplify
Who's behind this?
Hi, I'm Avery (she/her), I'm a local Seattleite living on Capitol Hill. I built calmmystreet.com to make this city better for everybody living here.
Made with help and advice from a few local advocacy orgs. 
In 2025, I worked with Seattle's City Council to make street safety improvements in my neighborhood. After successfully making these streets safer, I wanted to share that process throughout the city. Our streets are not good as they are, and I want to find the other people who feel that way.
Too many people are hurt and killed by cars, and I want to help Seattle dream bigger. Traffic deaths are preventable, and we should be making the changes required to meet our existing commitment of zero traffic deaths on Seattle streets by 2030. Without improving our roads, we will not reach our goal. In 2024 we had 43 deaths on Seattle's roads.
How do we make streets safer?
- Keep cars from using our neighborhood streets as shortcuts
- Make it easier and safer to cross the street
- Traffic calming on major thoroughfares
- Prioritize transit and other alternatives to driving
- Allow corner stores and similar throughout the city so you can grab what you need without getting in a car
Seattle has a list of proven strategies to make our streets safer. Check out their list on seattle.gov
What are we not?
- Calm My Street has no intentions of preventing you from driving from anywhere to anywhere inside Seattle
- Calm My Street is not an official CIty of Seattle site
Get involved
Send an email to calmmystreet@gmail.com
Privacy
Calm My Street will never share your email. We will show parts of your reports on maps throughout the site, and share reports with the City of Seattle.
We will allow advocates to email you based on your choice when reporting.
- I want to hear about calmer streets in this neighborhood
Based on where you've used Calm My Street to report street issues, you'll hear about ways to get involved in those areas.
- Update me about calmer streets citywide
You'll receive information about ways to get involved in street calming projects happening across the entire city of Seattle.
- Tell me everything
In addition to ways to get involved, you'll hear success stories and status updates about the project