Author: Gordon Padelford

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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tagged: gordon padelford, seattle neighborhood greenways
September 27, 2018

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways: Disappointing bike commute data is ‘neither surprising nor inevitable’

Editor’s Note: Seattle Bike Blog reported yesterday on newly-released 2017 American Communities Survey data that estimates that the number of people biking to work is declining in Seattle. In response, the folks at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways wrote this guest post looking at the start-and-stop construction of a useful bike network in our city and discusses where…
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tagged: american communities survey 2017, basic bike network, census, seattle neighborhood greenways
August 15, 2016

Fixing Seattle’s Most Dangerous Street

Seattle Bike Blog Editor Tom Fucoloro has Gone Bikin’ until Labor Day. In the meantime, here’s a post from Phyllis Porter and Gordon Padelford. Phyllis Porter is an educator, advocate for criminal justice reform, and leader with safe streets community group Rainier Valley Greenways. Gordon Padelford is the Policy Director for Seattle Neighborhood Greenways. Join…
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May 13, 2016

Guest post part II: How Seattle can rescue residents stranded by an incomplete bike network

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of two guest posts by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways this week. Their map conceptualizing the connectivity potential in the city’s bike planning is brilliant. If you like this vision or are frustrated by the city’s recent bike plan cuts, be sure to check out the calls to action at the…
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tagged: bicycle master plan implementation plan, cathy tuttle, center city bike network, gordon padelford, seattle neighborhood greenways
May 11, 2016

Guest post: Seattle’s stranded biking families

EDITOR’S NOTE: This guest post from Seattle Neighborhood Greenways was a collaboration by several biking parents with the help of SNG staff. It may be inconvenient for city leaders to hear, but disconnected safe bike route islands do not make Seattle a great bike city. If you are not willing or able to bike in…
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tagged: gordon padelford, seattle neighborhood greenways, shirley savel, tim fliss
October 7, 2015

SNG: Imagining a truly bike-friendly Uptown and South Lake Union

EDITOR’S NOTE: The only thing worse than biking in South Lake Union is driving in South Lake Union. But unlike driving, there are some relatively easy and quickly-achievable ways to dramatically improve bike routes to and through our city’s fastest-growing neighborhood. Over the summer, I joined Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, local residents, city staff and City…
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tagged: cathy tuttle, gordon padelford, lower queen anne, lyle bicknell, sally bagshaw, seattle neighborhood greenways, south lake union, uptown