Co-Founding member of the Denver Bicycle Lobby. I ride around Denver a lot. Just trying not to get squished 🚫🚴‍♂️💥🚙 (he/him)
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@denversmayor removing flex posts in opposition to Denver's Bikeway Design Manual isn't the right move. This means we lose guidance in the winter, visual friction that helps slow drivers, and a small but important sense of safety. This also opens the lanes up to bike lane parkers
I encourage you to talk to riders and push back on the idea that safe infrastructure is "ugly". This makes us less safe and seems to be in line with the recent failings of DOTI to carry out their goals.
Rob Toftness retweeted
At today’s Rally for 29th Avenue, NIMBYs approached several female volunteers that were setting up before the rally & verbally accosted them. There is no place for harassment in our city, especially at peaceful gatherings and it was completely uncalled for. We condemn this.
Rob Toftness retweeted
Why don't more people bike?
Because we don't have safe bike lanes.
Why don't we have safe bike lanes?
Because we prioritize parking.
This announcement is so disheartening and a horrible precedent for @DenverDOTI
Today we learned that @DenverDOTI completely killed the West 29th Avenue protected bike lane between Tennyson & Sheridan to placate residents with driveways & garages that wanted extra on street parking. DOTI has made it clear that convenient parking is more important than safety
Rob Toftness retweeted
How is it possible you wrote an entire article focused on one guy's concern over BRT that will service thousands of riders and you didn't speak to one bus rider @BenninDen?
westword.com/news/denver-res…
How is it possible you wrote an entire article focused on one guy's concern over BRT that will service thousands of riders and you didn't speak to one bus rider @BenninDen?
westword.com/news/denver-res…
An actual rider: xitter.cf/aclough97/status/18259…
@calhounwestword how in the world are you all publishing this stuff with any pride?
Safety stops rule. Anyone whining about that 'one time I saw a bike run a stop sign' drool
tim walz doesn’t think bikes should stop at stop signs hell yeah axios.com/local/twin-cities/…
Rob Toftness retweeted
Yaaass. This is the way.
If I'm reading this right, Denver is now proposing protected bike lanes some of the city's busiest arterial streets:
- Colorado Blvd
- Speer
- S Broadway
- W Evans
- Monaco
- Quebec
- 17th/18th
- 13th/14th
- York/Josephine
Take a look at the map here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories…
Yes & connecting collector, & neighborhood streets
Broadway has shown us that people want to ride to their destinations directly and not just go "a few streets over"
Cars get a network, so should bikes
It's been fun seeing this come together, project leaders have been awesome
If I'm reading this right, Denver is now proposing protected bike lanes some of the city's busiest arterial streets:
- Colorado Blvd
- Speer
- S Broadway
- W Evans
- Monaco
- Quebec
- 17th/18th
- 13th/14th
- York/Josephine
Take a look at the map here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories…
Here's John Hopkins supporting narrower lanes for crash reduction.
Don't be dense like this guy and think about transportation on vibes only.
Learn a thing or two and you'll find transportation policy is not intuitive and needs critical thinking.
publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/na…
No, that’s not at all the implication. The implication (and reality) is that the car lanes are too narrow now whereas before there was enough room.
And look how you twist your mind into knots to gaslight me into thinking that a huge increase in car accidents is something to be ignored or overlooked. It doesn’t matter if it’s cars running into parked cars (which is what I expected the majority of the accidents to be anyway). The point is the accidents are now more frequent BECAUSE OF THE BIKE LANES.
These specific bike lanes were a mistake. That is what virtually every adult who is not bizarrely obsessed with a child’s toy and who lives near Augusta will tell you. You’re not going to get far with your bike lane crusade by telling people to shut up and just live with a ton more car accidents.