Walking to Transit on Capitol Hill

  • gordon
  • Nov. 27, 2017
Note from SNG Executive Director Gordon Padelford: People who live on Capitol Hill love to walk and they love to take transit. Thanks to the hard work of Central Seattle Greenways, it’s going to soon be easier to do both. Creating safe routes so that people can walk and bike to transit lines and hubs is a strategy that we’re working on with our local groups across the city. By …
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Neighbors Celebrate New Safe Routes to 3 Schools

  • gordon
  • Nov. 27, 2017
Safe streets advocacy can be a long, arduous haul. But sometimes we just get to throw our hands up in the air and shout “YES!! We did this!!” On August 27 we celebrated a key step in knitting North Seattle neighborhoods together, easing walking and biking between east and west, and bringing critical safety improvements to the routes to and from three newly-opened schools. Our ribbon-cutting gathering of 100+ neighbors …
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Uniting Georgetown and South Park Neighborhoods

  • gordon
  • Nov. 27, 2017
The idea is simple enough: connect “main street” of Georgetown to “main street” of South Park with a walking and biking path. But, for nearly 20 years residents of South Park and Georgetown neighborhoods have been unable to get traction on their vision -- until now. Georgetown and South Park are a flat, short distance apart. In these adjacent neighborhoods, more than 8,500 people live, 30,000 work, and countless …
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Our Biggest Victory Yet

  • gordon
  • Nov. 27, 2017
What do walking and biking connections, affordable housing, and parks have in common? They are foundational to our quality of life in Seattle. And while our focus is on walking and biking, sometimes we can achieve more by working in broad coalitions.   In the fall of 2016 the Washington State Convention Center sought feedback about what the surrounding neighborhoods wanted in exchange for building a massive expansion of …
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A Beer With Cathy & Gordon

  • Aug. 5, 2017

Cathy and bike stencilYou, your friends, and your family are invited!

Here is a chance to support SNG, welcome new staff, and bid a fond adieu to founding executive director Cathy Tuttle. Our city owes a debt of gratitude to Cathy for her visionary and effective work. Among innumerable other accomplishments, her leadership inspired and supported the formation of 20-some Greenways groups.  From Georgetown/Duwamish to West Seattle to Licton Springs, citizens who care …
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