@NoSquish

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Co-Founding member of the Denver Bicycle Lobby. I ride around Denver a lot. Just trying not to get squished πŸš«πŸš΄β€β™‚οΈπŸ’₯πŸš™
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Opinion: Stop growth? Might as well try to hold back the tide

Population growth is going to happen. We can expand housing and preserve our landscape, if we loosen zoning and accept density.

The Colorado Sun

This is such a bizarre article. The Colorado Safety Stop and Denver Deserves Sidewalks are two different initiatives and the author weirdly attributes them all the "bicycle lobby" but it is the Glendale Cherry Chronicle which has always been unhinged.

https://glendalecherrycreek.com/2022/12/bicycle-lobby-peddles-tax-that-forces-property-owners-to-fix-city-sidewalks/

Bicycle Lobby Peddles Tax That Forces Property Owners To Fix City Sidewalks - Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle

Voters Favor Ordinance 307 By Slim 55.2%; Initiative Will Cost Homeowners $110 To $1,000 Per Year, Based On Sidewalk Frontage by Glen Richardson Denver’s scrappy band of die-hard cyclists and activists who have proliferated painted bike lanes on Denver streets β€” and will add another 125 miles by 2024 at a cost of $13.4 million […]

Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle

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Proper framing of a recent hit and run in Denver from a local journalist

I just finished the Dan Savage episode of @TheWarOnCars. It was great. One of the listener questions was basically "how do I unsee all the things I've had my eyes opened too?"

My answer to this is - you can't.

However if you want to do the next closest thing, experience your city with a visitor. Take a visiting advocate on a bike ride, walk through your city with friends, or ride transit to a place you wouldn't normally go.

They'll see things you now miss, guaranteed.

3700 miles on the Rad Bike today!

Walking away from Twitter, at least for a bit. Was truly doing nothing positive for me lately. It's just getting so bad.

The one thing I haven't seen mentioned is Twitter was Elon's marketing/PR/support wing of Tesla. Things have really soured for them in Twitter and I think that's a huge reason he is doing his best to tank it. It's his fucked up way of controlling the message and it hurts everyone.

Just some bike folks gathering over cookies and beer
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