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Matt wanted a crosswalk near his house so his parents could feel safe crossing the street, especially in a Seattle winter, when it's dark after dinner. He realized it wasn't clear how to get a crosswalk built, how to get crossing flags, or how to organize his neighbors, so he built Seattle Crosswalk Watch.
In October 2026 we checked 15 US cities, five each large, medium and small, to see which could run the same site. Only 4 publish a ranked list of places that need a new crossing, like SDOT's: Portland, Tucson, Bellingham and Ann Arbor. None of the five largest do. Almost every large city does publish a Vision Zero High Injury Network, the streets where people are hurt most, so most large cities could work with one change to how "most needed" is set.
Every city needs two steps: which corners lack a crossing, and in what order to list them.
Cities with their own list (Tier A): the city's list and the city's order, as in Seattle.
Cities with a High Injury Network (Tier B): corners on main streets at least 600 feet from any crosswalk, signal or all-way stop (SDOT's own definition), ordered by the city's network tier, then its equity index, then nearby schools and transit.
Cities with neither (Tier C): the same 600-foot rule, ordered by a county or regional network if there is one, or by a simple public formula on places people walk to, safety and equity, labeled as ours.
The weak spot is finding the corners, not ranking them: many cities don't map their existing crosswalks. Each city also needs a way for residents to ask for a crossing. Council members work almost everywhere; most cities take traffic requests through 311 or a web form; and New York, Phoenix, Raleigh and Kansas City publish what happens to requests. Crash data depends on the state: Oregon, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, California and Colorado publish it, while Washington, Arizona and Louisiana need a records request.
Next would be Portland, the closest match to Seattle, then Raleigh to test the High Injury Network version. Full report
Voting takes an email address so each person votes once per corner, and so does updating a corner's crossing flags. We email you a link to confirm it, and we only email you about corners you vote for. We never show your email address or sell it. The reasons you give are shown without your name, on the corner's page and in the requests neighbors send SDOT, after we've read them. Undo a vote on the corner's page and it's deleted.