Tag: gordon padelford

May 5, 2020

Crowdsourced map highlights 130 miles of potential Stay Healthy Streets

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has been collecting people’s ideas for street improvements the city could make to help more people get outside and get around safely during the outbreak. They received 250 ideas, which they condensed into a map of 130 miles of car-light Stay Healthy Streets and temporary on-street walk/bike paths designed to relieve crowded…
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tagged: clara cantor, covid-19, gordon padelford, kl shannon, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets
April 17, 2020

Watch: Talking open streets during COVID-19 with Gordon and Clara from SNG

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has been working with local advocates to develop ideas for open streets as a way to relieve crowding on sidewalks, paths and major parks during the outbreak. We previously reported about some of their ideas, and the organization is still accepting open streets ideas via their online survey. Since taping this interview…
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tagged: clara cantor, gordon padelford, open streets, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets, video
April 23, 2019

Padelford: Let’s build a better bike movement

EDITOR’S NOTE: With Mayor Jenny Durkan delaying or cancelling so many bike route plans, Gordon Padelford and I had a conversation wondering how the movement for safe streets and better bike routes should evolve from here. Padelford, Executive Director of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, then reached out with this open letter to people who bike in…
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November 14, 2018

Sunday: World Day of Remembrance will be a healing space for those impacted by traffic violence

Every year, about 20 people die in traffic collisions in Seattle. Another 150 people are seriously injured, often resulting in life-changing health issues. And for every one of these victims and survivors, there is a community of loved ones whose lives are changed, too. That’s why Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is hosting Seattle’s memorial for World…
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tagged: gordon padelford, seattle neighborhood greenways, world day of remembrance
August 11, 2017

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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May 26, 2017

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…
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tagged: cathy tuttle, gordon padelford, seattle neighborhood greenways