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Gordon Padelford

@gordonofseattle.bsky.social

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I share about walking, biking, great cities, & progressive politics. I work for @sngreenways.bsky.social (Seattle's walking, biking, and streets for people nonprofit), but these are my personal opinions.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · Nov 22

👋🏻 new followers. I’m Gordon and my day job is Executive Director of Seattle’s walking and biking nonprofit @sngreenways.bsky.social. Most of my content is specific to Seattle, and mostly about street infrastructure.

Hing Hay park in the Chinatown International District

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We explored Seattle’s pedestrian-only floating bridge this morning along the Arboretum Waterfront Trail

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 10h

Seattle: we’re the most educated and least religious city in the country

Also Seattle: so there’s this baseball salmon mascot who has never won a race right?

Always sunny in Philadelphia Conspiracy meme

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 10h

Katie Wilson: "I look at what Mayor Hidalgo has achieved in Paris, and I think that, and some of the mayors in Spanish cities, progressive, socialist mayors in Spanish cities, and the transformation of public space into walkable, people-oriented places where you want to be, it’s just so important."

I look at what Mayor Hidalgo has achieved in Paris, and I think that, and some of the mayors in Spanish cities, progressive, socialist mayors in Spanish cities, and the transformation of public space into walkable, people-oriented places where you want to be, it’s just so important. I really think that’s definitely going to be a big focus of my administration because if you travel to places like that where that kind of transformation has been achieved, you just feel like, “This is a place that I want to hang out.” It makes me feel good. It makes me feel like part of the city. I can meet people, talk to people, and there’s so much potential in Seattle for creating more of those spaces, and Ca

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 21h

That's better

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 21h

On second thought, have they considered seeing who can balance a bat on their nose the longest?

Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 21h

The Rapid Ride J project timeline was just training for this

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 21h

So how’s everyone doing?

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 1d

If the Norwegians had a sense of humour, they'd give Obama a second peace prize today.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 22h

Internet radio over here

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, but I do appreciate that ⚾️ doesn’t devolve into a silly mini game to resolve things, looking at you ⚽️ shootouts (this may just be my residual stress from shootouts back when I played)

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 23h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 22h

Tarnado, Area Grill Dad @tarnado.bsky.social · 22h

They've gone ELEVEN INNINGS ???

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23h

god this is torture why do you people like this

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s another angle of it

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Other than the gnats that divebomb your eyes, this newly repaved section of Burke Gilman Trail is quite nice

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Cool to see so many Husky fans using the bike valet at the UW!

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 1d

I am up in Lake City meeting with some volunteers who are working to restart Lake City Greenways with their kick off meeting next Wednesday 6pm in the Library! You’re invited!

Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 1d

“Healthy Street Ends” is such a confession about American transportation

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Loving this Healthy Street mural and park in Little Brook. Thank you Lake City Collective and @seattledot.bsky.social!

Our streets are public land.
That land should reflect our values and priorities.

sdotblog.seattle.gov/2021/11/10/n...

Seating, basketball hoop, street painting, pedestrian only street

Street mural. “Tlingit ocean monster that was used by the Shatx’Heen Kwaan and the smaller designs are Chilkat blanket sections. Artist Romel Da Vinci Belleza’s intentions are to uplift native youth and honor his Indigenous heritage”

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Where the sidewalk and bike lane ends in Pinehurst

Parking takes over from bike lane and sidewalk

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Northwest Urbanist @thenorthwesturbanist.com · 1d

It's a rainy weekday in October and Pike Place is as busy as any sunny summer weekend. I think the disappearance of non-essential car traffic is a huge help. This setup should be made permanent.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 1d

To the point that when you bike through there you do a double take "wait was that where it was?"

The pinch points to the south still remain to be fixed however: www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/10/08/w...

Why the Port didn’t fix the ‘Path Narrows’ south of the removed Interbay trail bridge

When the Port of Seattle initially announced the Terminal 91 Trail bridge removal project back in 2023, they were also planning to widen the “Path Narrows” pinch point where the fences …

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Change is possible. E Marginal Way before/after. Thanks to 12 years of advocacy from West Seattle Bike Connections, West Seattleites now have a safe and family-friendly trail from the West Seattle low bridge to downtown! It was a massive rebuild of the street to better support large trucks 🚚🤝🚲

before, busy street with trucks and cars all over the roads and skinny paint only bike lane. no sidewalk

seperated trail from roadway with truck on the street

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 1d

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like it was never there!

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