STOP: 26th SW and SW Genesee now all-way stop after SDOT sign installation

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Thanks for the tip and photos! A reader reports that the intersection of 26th SW and SW Genesee is now an all-way stop, after SDOT installed signs on Genesee today:

This comes five-plus years after a community controversy over a different plan to calm traffic at that intersection: In 2020, SDOT announced a sudden plan for “diverters” at this intersection and 26th/Brandon; after neighborhood pushback, they shelved the idea in March 2021, and that’s the last time the word “diverters” appears in our archives. 26th SW is a greenway through the area.

Richard Gave November 25, 2025 (2:14 pm)

Love to see it! This is so needed.

Azimuth November 25, 2025 (3:41 pm)

Cool! I have a dozen more intersections to recommend SDOT.

LG November 25, 2025 (4:20 pm)

I have been waiting for this since 2008! So excited to have a safer street for all the walkers & neighbors along 26th.

22blades November 25, 2025 (4:23 pm)

Love all ways stops. Hard to speed. I’ve seen San Mateo go to all ways & I really like it. Better expectations of other drivers.

Kathleen November 25, 2025 (4:44 pm)

As a resident on 26th Ave.sw, I’m not a fan of this. I don’t understand why they didn’t install the flashing pedestrian-initiated lights like they have up the hill at the Avalon and Yancy intersection.

Confused November 25, 2025 (5:53 pm)

Because cars ignore them and pedestrians refuse to push the button and just step out into the road. I have seen so many cars and buses run the flashing lights and I’ve seen a ton of pedestrians ignore the button and just step into traffic expecting vehicles to stop.
- Kyle November 25, 2025 (7:56 pm)
  
  Live by two of the flashing crossers and they work great. Press button, count to 3, 100% of the 1000+ crossings I’ve made cars and buses have stopped safely and I got to cross safely with no wait.
- bill November 25, 2025 (7:56 pm)
  
  Pedestrians should not have to push buttons to get drivers to obey the law. Nice try at victim blaming.
  - Confused November 25, 2025 (11:10 pm)
    
    I think you may need to reread my comment, there was no victim blaming at all. I actually said everyone is at fault for ignoring the blinking lights. If you want to talk about obeying laws then how about the facts that yes, vehicles need to stop for pedestrians in an unmarked or marked crosswalk, and vehicles must also stop for pedestrians waiting to cross. That being said, the law also states that pedestrians should also wait for the traffic to stop in order to cross safely and not to just step into the road. The buttons are there to give traffic a visual indication that pedestrians want to cross, it is a way to enhance safety for everyone. You seem like you’re just wanting to argue because “cars bad, pedestrians good” when it’s not that simple. This is all about adding more safety for everyone,
    - bill November 26, 2025 (11:04 am)
      
      Confused: You are blaming pedestrians for stepping into the street, but that is often the only way to get drivers to stop.
  - Frog November 26, 2025 (10:09 am)
    
    Ya but … once the crossing signal is installed, it creates an expectation and results in drivers recalibrating their mental systems. If used properly (never count on anything with SDOT), flashing walk signals would be installed where sight lines are poor or where drivers have several other hazards for which they must watch in addition to the possibility of pedestrians wanting to cross. Cooperation goes a long way toward easing coexistence. The war on cars is not a war in which you want to die.
- Andy G. November 29, 2025 (9:07 am)
  
  My friends and I push the button every time; moreover, I’ve had to stop for people who also presses the button before they proceed yo walk during the flashing yellow light.
Seth November 25, 2025 (6:10 pm)

Also as a resident next to this stop, this was so much needed, but I agree we also need flashing yellows. Truth of the matter is people love to skip traffic on delridge, fly down Genessee. This is needed to keep crossing safe.
- IDC9 December 8, 2025 (8:31 am)
  
  I agree with your sentiment. The stop signs are great. Flashing yellows takes it to the next level.

pigeonpointer November 25, 2025 (5:04 pm)

went through there on my way home about 4pm and people were flying through the new four way stop.cars, bicyclists and pedestrians should continue to be careful, as it seems it may take some time for the new stops signs to sink in to drivers’ conscious habits.

IDC9 December 8, 2025 (8:32 am)

Sounds like SPD might need to do some educational enforcement at this intersection to help drivers adjust.

Kathy November 25, 2025 (10:42 pm)

26th Ave SW is supposed to be a Greenway. It was promoted by SDOT as an alternative to make up for removing the southbound bike lane on Delridge Way. Yet for many years people using it had to play Frogger when crossing the arterial on Genesee. Thanks, SDOT, it’s long overdue, but better late than never. These are the types of low hanging fruit changes that can discourage drivers from speeding and make people feel safer on our streets.

Azimuth November 26, 2025 (9:01 am)

I hope they plan to re-paint the road crosswalks and/or stop lines. Those really do help with the visual cues to stop.

IDC9 December 8, 2025 (8:34 am)

Another excellent idea! Freshly painted lines and markers will help everyone adjust to the intersection’s new rules.

L Matter November 26, 2025 (9:07 am)

Finally! When SDOT was planning to put diverters in this was my suggestion in response. I hope this slows the traffic coming east down the hill on Genessee. As a local driver who accesses this intersection multiple times a week coming off 26th this is great that I get a ‘turn’ to go east or west more safely.

Lavendar November 26, 2025 (9:25 am)

We needed this years ago! Big thank you to SDOT. Now let’s calm traffic on SW Genesee. People are driving 40mph+ down that street and the speed limit is 25mph.

IDC9 December 8, 2025 (8:34 am)

Sounds like speed humps might be needed here.

rmw November 26, 2025 (11:44 am)

Came through this intersection this morning and two cars blew through it while I was waiting to cross. SDOT should have put up some warning sign that the intersection had been modified.

hc November 26, 2025 (2:29 pm)

They have, in all directions :) I’m also so glad they put these in!

D November 26, 2025 (12:55 pm)

We need one on Genesee and 44th Ave SW!

Alki Vista November 26, 2025 (10:42 pm)

An all way stop is the most anti car option so therefore the anti car SDOT can’t resist. BUT it is the most inefficient environmentally. Cars just sitting running for no reason, as is the case much if not most of the time at an all way stop, remembering they run 24/7, are pumping out CO2 just the same as if they were getting to their destination as promptly as possible. Obviously an on demand stop is massively better environmentally so cars are not stopped unnecessarily. But hating cars clearly trumps the environment at SDOT. And has for all Gen X and Gen Z memory, so they don’t know the difference. Boomers do. Also, 90% of these comments are from dedicated pedestrian car haters. A perfect storm of one sidedness. Highlighting violations is statistically incosequential but invaluable to push the narrative. Smart lights are superior to everything but a clover leaf. But who remembers them? All wa y stops 24/7? Dumb as it gets.

Foop November 27, 2025 (7:45 am)

We should install diverters instead!
JB November 28, 2025 (8:17 am)

What?

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