Gordon Padelford

Apples

Tonight new apple: Wild Twist. Soooo the name definitely oversells this apple, but it’s still solid. A Honeycrisp / Pink Lady cross the Pinky Lady really brings down the sweetness level which I prefer, and the crispness is there from Honeycrisp. A solid apple, but not a wild twist on anything

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Excited for the next chapter of this great community org

Seattle, King County Leaders Promise Climate Action — Accountability Next Seattle and King County's new leadership promise climate action — from cleaner transit to more tree canopy — but South Seattle communities are watching for the data and accountability to prove it.

"We need to [be]...transitioning away from a car-centric transportation system and toward more dense, walkable, affordable neighborhoods. Not only are vehicles one of the major contributors to our climate crisis, they're also dangerous & are killing our neighbors" @cmeddielin.bsky.social 🎯 as always

🛢️📈There has never been a better time to drive less.

One barrier people have to driving less is thinking that they need to convert ALL their car trips to walking, biking, or transit. But it's not all or nothing. 48% of trips American city-dwellers make are under 3 miles! Try 🚶🏻🚴🏾‍♀️🛴🚎 for those!

Bringing your bike or scooter | Rules for bikes and scooters on transit | Sound Transit Sound Transit allows bicycles on all our vehicles at no extra cost. Due to limited onboard capacity, Sound Transit recommends having a backup plan or parking your bicycle at our facilities before boar...

I think that's still sort of the case sometimes: "Cyclists with bicycles are not allowed to board any railcar exceeding agency-defined crowding thresholds. Sound Transit personnel have the right to refuse bicycle boardings in the event of overcrowding."

www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us...

Is bringing a GSD against ST policy? www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us...

But I definitely agree with your overall point that transit agencies (looking at you water taxis) haven't caught up to family bikes.

Op-Ed: Why Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Is Rebranding as Seattle Streets Alliance » The Urbanist # After 15 years fighting for safe streets, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is excited to become Seattle Streets Alliance to more accurately reflect the nature of our grassroots organization’s mission....

After 13 years of working for @sngreenways.bsky.social, I'm now working for @streetsalliance.bsky.social! Wait, what? Read more on @theurbanist.org

In this house, we believe:
❤️ Love is love
🤝🏻 No human is illegal
🪖Those jackbooted thugs from SDOT better not be coming around here upgrading our streetlamps without a 2/3 vote of support from my NextDoor group
✨ Kindness is everything

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

Home opening onto path

Columbia park and 36th aerial

Here in Seattle: Do you ever dream about living on 36th Ave S in Columbia City where your front door opens onto a sidewalk and park? Seems like a great place to live! Maybe we should pedestrianize other streets so more people can enjoy this kind of life?

Who wouldn’t want to raise a family on a street like this?

Yes, but what if we have to remove a few car parking spaces to make room for bus lanes, bike lanes, or pedestrian corner extensions? Let’s not get hasty here

🎤 Welcome to another round of “West Seattle blog comment or Brett Hamil comic?” Our prompt today is

"This is what the jackboots actually look like, people. We have seen the enemy, and it's right here at home."

This was a meeting about a mild transportation project to decrease speeding, improve lighting, and make an accessible barrier protected trail.

Or a totalitarian invasion? Hard to know.

As someone who was on the bike side of the barrier multiple times this week, thank you for your service, barrier 🫡

Car crossing the crosswalk at MLK & Edmonds while the Walk signal is on.

Another day, another close call on MLK Way. This driver accelerated through the red light and narrowly avoided the crowd that had started to cross.

Raised crosswalks at Link stations would have prevented this incident.

"When it comes to transportation, Davis wants to help steer the ship away from the highway megaprojects that the legislature continues to be focused on, as the state’s existing infrastructure continues to fall into disrepair"

Let's go @ronpdavis.bsky.social!
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Lol. "Is this a @bretthamil.bsky.social comic or real West Seattle Blog comment?" would be a fun game.

staff selfie

pic of volunteer summit

Seattle Streets Alliance is a people-powered movement, and I am so grateful for the caring and passionate community of people I get to be surrounded by every day. Thank you to everyone who is a part of this, and if you aren't yet — join us today! www.streetsalliance.org/get-involved...

Wondering about the name change from Seattle Neighborhood Greenways to Seattle Streets Alliance? Read more here

Green and white logo with text on the side reading Rainier Valley Safe Streets

Green and white shield shaped logo with Mount Rainier & Lake Washington sticking out from the top as squares depicting road sign style abstractions of a light rail train, person biking, person using a wheelchair, and parent pedestrian holding a kid’s hand

Seattle Streets Alliance logo & title in green and white with a circle logo depicting silhouettes of people walking across a crosswalk, person riding a bicycle, and person using a wheelchair in front of houses, apartments, and trees

It’s official! We have changed our name to Rainier Valley Safe Streets as part of the rebranding of now Seattle Streets Alliance @sngreenways.bsky.social

This helps with past confusion (we don’t manage the city’s greenways program)

With a new name, our advocacy for safer streets for all continues

The Seattle @streetsalliance.bsky.social is one of the most significant safe streets organizations to form in recent memory anywhere in the nation. Their bottom-up leadership model is powerful and could be adapted in many other places. It's empowering for volunteers and fun to start a local group.

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways becomes the Seattle Streets Alliance Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is now the Seattle Streets Alliance. "It’s a better explanation of who we are and what we’re about,” said Streets Alliance Executive Director Gordon Padelford. It's true. The organization convenes coalitions around safe streets and transit and housing. They have led and helped lead major pushes to increase the size of multiple transportation levies and then helped gather support to pass those levies.

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways becomes the Seattle Streets Alliance

#SEAbikes #Seattle

Op-Ed: Why Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Is Rebranding as Seattle Streets Alliance » The Urbanist # After 15 years fighting for safe streets, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is excited to become Seattle Streets Alliance to more accurately reflect the nature of our grassroots organization’s mission....

NEW OP-ED // Why Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Is Rebranding as Seattle Streets Alliance

By Joshua Holland of @streetsalliance.bsky.social, via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/03/05/o...

Very exciting update! @streetsalliance.bsky.social

Thanks! I'm sure there will be lots of bugs we work out over the coming days. our comms director @joshholland.bsky.social is on here too if you see more

Change is possible 🧵 (click through and scroll down for more)

Occidental Ave in Pioneer Square cafes and trees on a pedestrianized street

Two people walking one in a wheelchair on Lake Washington Boulevard during an Open Street event

person biking next to poppies on the Burke Gilman Trail

elders enjoying Hing hay Park with city skyline in the background

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

Looks great!