Tag: cathy tuttle
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What could traffic enforcement look like with no or fewer armed police? SNG task force wants to find out
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has created a “Re-Imagining Traffic Enforcement Task Force” to research best practices and organize with community to develop ways to enforce traffic safety without or with fewer police and to rethink which traffic laws are keeping people safe in first place. As Yes Segura reported on Seattle Bike Blog last week, police…
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Who’s the best District 4 candidate for biking and safe streets?
District: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 As noted in our previous posts, Seattle Bike Blog is not doing official endorsements this primary. Instead, I’ll be going district-by-district, posting videos from the MASS Coalition’s transportation forums along with a roundup of transportation-related endorsements and other notable news items and thoughts. District…
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Party to celebrate outgoing and incoming Seattle Neighborhood Greenways leaders Sunday
Cathy Tuttle founded something very special when she started Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, the volunteer-empowering, community-centered safe streets organization she has led as Executive Director since its beginning in 2011. Tuttle is retiring, and the organization is hiring multiple staffers to try to fill her shoes under the leadership of new ED Gordon Padelford (as Padelford…
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Padelford named next Director of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, now hiring 2 staffers
With Founder and Executive Director Cathy Tuttle retiring, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways staffer Gordon Padelford is getting ready to take the organization’s helm. He will be the first ED of the organization other than Tuttle, who founded it in 2011 and led its formation into a 501(c)(3) non-profit the next year. “I’m incredibly grateful to have her…
‘Our crumbling streets can be rebuilt later, our humanity cannot’
As advocates for safe streets, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has spent a lot of its efforts lobbying, campaigning and building support for infrastructure investments. So with lots of local transportation funding at risk if the Trump administration succeeds in its threat to pull federal funding from so-called “sanctuary cities,” where does Seattle Neighborhood Greenways stand? “Our…
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Neighbors for safe streets unite at City Hall for World Day of Remembrance Thursday
Two hundred forty people have been killed in Seattle traffic in the past decade. Ten times that many have been seriously injured. Thursday, in solidarity with similar events across the world, neighbors from all over Seattle will converge on City Hall to remember those who have been killed or injured and call for transportation leaders…
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