Gordon Padelford
@gordonofseattle.bsky.social
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.
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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👋🏻 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.
What MLK JR Way S could have looked like 😔
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
What MLK JR Way S could have looked like 😔
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Funky #ConiferFriday
The China-fir, Chunninghamia (species lanceolata I think). While other China-firs in our town were damaged by drought and then severe cold a few winters in a row, this specimen grows on!
The China-fir, Chunninghamia (species lanceolata I think). While other China-firs in our town were damaged by drought and then severe cold a few winters in a row, this specimen grows on!
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Funky #ConiferFriday
The China-fir, Chunninghamia (species lanceolata I think). While other China-firs in our town were damaged by drought and then severe cold a few winters in a row, this specimen grows on!
The China-fir, Chunninghamia (species lanceolata I think). While other China-firs in our town were damaged by drought and then severe cold a few winters in a row, this specimen grows on!
Got to meet one of favorite local digital artists at Pike Place Market today!
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Got to meet one of favorite local digital artists at Pike Place Market today!
"$80 million “reparations” package, which he claimed would help Black Seattle residents buy houses or stay in their homes, ended up looking more like a cynical election ploy ...Harrell planned to achieve this ambitious number largely by adding “reparations” branding to existing programs."
Yikes.
Yikes.
Council Adopts Harrell's Budget With Minor Changes, Setting Up Huge Deficits for Incoming Mayor Wilson
The "audit the budget" crowd piles on more than $50 million in new spending, using new taxes to expand or start new programs and backfill an ongoing shortfall.
publicola.com/2025/11/21/c...
The "audit the budget" crowd piles on more than $50 million in new spending, using new taxes to expand or start new programs and backfill an ongoing shortfall.
publicola.com/2025/11/21/c...
Council Adopts Harrell's Budget With Minor Changes, Setting Up Huge Deficits for Incoming Mayor Wilson - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett On Thursday, the Seattle City Council voted (earlier than usual!) to pass the city’s 2026 budget,…
publicola.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"$80 million “reparations” package, which he claimed would help Black Seattle residents buy houses or stay in their homes, ended up looking more like a cynical election ploy ...Harrell planned to achieve this ambitious number largely by adding “reparations” branding to existing programs."
Yikes.
Yikes.
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The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
We can't even build streets that look like the "before" image...
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We can't even build streets that look like the "before" image...
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In the gap between the new Georgetown bike lane projects :-( Hoping for the best for this person.
Approximately an hour ago, Seattle Fire responded to a driver hitting someone on a bike near Airport Way S and Corson Ave S.
The person who was hit was transported to the hospital.
The person who was hit was transported to the hospital.
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
In the gap between the new Georgetown bike lane projects :-( Hoping for the best for this person.
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An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Reposting this 🧵 for anyone who dealing with your first Seattle November
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Reposting this 🧵 for anyone who dealing with your first Seattle November
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It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
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Hell yes. Mayor-elect Wilson: We need to make it possible for more people to live in this city without owning a car. Not just for people who don’t own cars. As more people move to Seattle, we have limited space. It’s just not possible to keep adding cars to the road. publicola.com/2025/11/20/s...
Seattle Nice Interviews Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson! - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett We had Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson on Seattle Nice this week for a wide-ranging interview about her…
publicola.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hell yes. Mayor-elect Wilson: We need to make it possible for more people to live in this city without owning a car. Not just for people who don’t own cars. As more people move to Seattle, we have limited space. It’s just not possible to keep adding cars to the road. publicola.com/2025/11/20/s...
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also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
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🚸 How we design roads dictates the speeds that drivers adopt, regardless of the posted speed limit.
👟 🚲 🚌 Research shows that narrowing vehicle travel lanes can reduce speeds and create #saferstreets in communities.
Read more in our latest blog ➡️ buff.ly/xxKOAxu
👟 🚲 🚌 Research shows that narrowing vehicle travel lanes can reduce speeds and create #saferstreets in communities.
Read more in our latest blog ➡️ buff.ly/xxKOAxu
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚸 How we design roads dictates the speeds that drivers adopt, regardless of the posted speed limit.
👟 🚲 🚌 Research shows that narrowing vehicle travel lanes can reduce speeds and create #saferstreets in communities.
Read more in our latest blog ➡️ buff.ly/xxKOAxu
👟 🚲 🚌 Research shows that narrowing vehicle travel lanes can reduce speeds and create #saferstreets in communities.
Read more in our latest blog ➡️ buff.ly/xxKOAxu
Just picked up my Harvest Pike Box and it looks great! If you need supplies for Thanksgiving consider coming down and stocking up at @pikeplacemarket.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Just picked up my Harvest Pike Box and it looks great! If you need supplies for Thanksgiving consider coming down and stocking up at @pikeplacemarket.bsky.social
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Seattle's mayor-elect has chosen people with major experience to lead her transition. She takes office in January.
Seattle's incoming mayor names City Hall veterans to her transition team
www.seattletimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Seattle's mayor-elect has chosen people with major experience to lead her transition. She takes office in January.
What a throwback!
I wrote about Katie Wilson’s work with the MASS Coalition back then and why it was clear to everyone she was a natural leader: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...
I wrote about Katie Wilson’s work with the MASS Coalition back then and why it was clear to everyone she was a natural leader: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...
I remember these two transpo nerds. I wonder what they’re up to these days.
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
What a throwback!
I wrote about Katie Wilson’s work with the MASS Coalition back then and why it was clear to everyone she was a natural leader: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...
I wrote about Katie Wilson’s work with the MASS Coalition back then and why it was clear to everyone she was a natural leader: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
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It is currently illegal to ride escooters on the sidewalk yet we encourage it by making them park there. Even in the downtown core where we have the most amount of sidewalk space, there just isn't enough room on the sidewalks to park scooters and bikes. Parking them in the street makes sense.
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It is currently illegal to ride escooters on the sidewalk yet we encourage it by making them park there. Even in the downtown core where we have the most amount of sidewalk space, there just isn't enough room on the sidewalks to park scooters and bikes. Parking them in the street makes sense.
@nondriver.bsky.social, Ilona Lohrey (GSBA), and I asked in the Seattle Times today for: "A parking corral system where, in busy areas around town, shared bikes and scooters must be parked in designated zones located on the street whenever physically possible." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/ok-c...
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
@nondriver.bsky.social, Ilona Lohrey (GSBA), and I asked in the Seattle Times today for: "A parking corral system where, in busy areas around town, shared bikes and scooters must be parked in designated zones located on the street whenever physically possible." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/ok-c...
One of my favorite bike lane protests:
1) Clearly demonstrates the issue
2) Proposes a systemic solution
3) Creates content that can be spread and shared easily
4) Does so with humor and heart
1) Clearly demonstrates the issue
2) Proposes a systemic solution
3) Creates content that can be spread and shared easily
4) Does so with humor and heart
Sharing this again just because I love it so much. #justaminute
Car drivers who block cycle lanes for “just a minute” force people on bikes into car traffic. It’s dangerous, it’s selfish, it’s illegal (NZ) and it deserves the mocking it gets in this protest action.
Car drivers who block cycle lanes for “just a minute” force people on bikes into car traffic. It’s dangerous, it’s selfish, it’s illegal (NZ) and it deserves the mocking it gets in this protest action.
Blocked Bike Lane Protest on Valencia St. – San Francisco, CA #justaminute
YouTube video by Stephen Braitsch
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
One of my favorite bike lane protests:
1) Clearly demonstrates the issue
2) Proposes a systemic solution
3) Creates content that can be spread and shared easily
4) Does so with humor and heart
1) Clearly demonstrates the issue
2) Proposes a systemic solution
3) Creates content that can be spread and shared easily
4) Does so with humor and heart
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Paris. It was not 'built like this.'
Thanks Anne Hidalgo, a DOER, for greening Paris. Along the way, showing the world's mayors that change is doable.
Situation Modification: it’s NOT willpower, but the wisdom to shape the situations that shape you. Angela Duckworth
Thanks Anne Hidalgo, a DOER, for greening Paris. Along the way, showing the world's mayors that change is doable.
Situation Modification: it’s NOT willpower, but the wisdom to shape the situations that shape you. Angela Duckworth
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Paris. It was not 'built like this.'
Thanks Anne Hidalgo, a DOER, for greening Paris. Along the way, showing the world's mayors that change is doable.
Situation Modification: it’s NOT willpower, but the wisdom to shape the situations that shape you. Angela Duckworth
Thanks Anne Hidalgo, a DOER, for greening Paris. Along the way, showing the world's mayors that change is doable.
Situation Modification: it’s NOT willpower, but the wisdom to shape the situations that shape you. Angela Duckworth
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
The Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition is organizing a protest this Friday at the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Headquarters. which is considering allowing unlimited tire burning in the Duwamish Valley. Read more: www.drcc.org/clean-air-pr...
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition is organizing a protest this Friday at the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Headquarters. which is considering allowing unlimited tire burning in the Duwamish Valley. Read more: www.drcc.org/clean-air-pr...
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The sound of evening rush hour in Utrecht.
A minute of pure relaxation! 👌🏼
A minute of pure relaxation! 👌🏼
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The sound of evening rush hour in Utrecht.
A minute of pure relaxation! 👌🏼
A minute of pure relaxation! 👌🏼
Reposting this 🧵 thread since apparently Seattle is still dying or whatever according to the Washington Post.
Like all good propaganda there is a kernel of truth in that Seattle really has struggled with homelessness, but not because of what they suggest. We’ve been one of the fastest growing cities in the country for over a decade and our housing supply and services haven’t scaled with that
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reposting this 🧵 thread since apparently Seattle is still dying or whatever according to the Washington Post.