Matthew Elliott

PBOT gives bike bus leaders traffic signal superpowers You could think of this as bike bus signal priority.

“As we continue to have conversations about what we do to support the bike bus movement,” PBOT Director Williams said the BAC meeting last week, “some of that will require some changes. There is a deep interest in making sure that we do that well and do that right.”
bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...

Every time a kid gets to eat lunch, we all win. Even if you have food.
Every time a wildfire gets put out, we all win. Even if you don't smell smoke.
Every time someone gets an education, we all win. Even if your kids go to private school.
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"People drive the design, not the sign."
-unknown

Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.

Waste bins partially block a bike lane

The bins are now upright and in the painted buffer space between the bike lane and car lane

When life gives you lemons.... Make a pop-up separated bike lane!

A mid-block school crossing with traffic cones to narrow the one-way street and a movable speed bump in front of the crosswalk.

Our neighbor school has started doing more of their own traffic calming. It’s great to see this tactical urbanism being employed, but frustrating that A. it’s needed at all and B. not being implemented by the city. It really does take a village.

Maybe I should start preemptively screaming at car drivers when they approach a red light—that seems to work better than the light itself.

Friendly reminder.

Road safety campaigns must speak directly to and target those that perpetrate the greatest harm.

Both 46th Ave and Lowell at this intersection were supposed to be protected bike lanes. The 46th Ave PBL was cancelled and the Lowell PBL has been delayed indefinitely due to lack of funding. This is another crash in Denver that could have been prevented.

CDOT is expanding the use of cameras to issue automated speeding tickets The effort comes as speed-related crashes and deaths increase across the state.

“In fact, the average driver saves just 26 seconds per day by speeding.”

www.cpr.org/2025/08/31/c...

In a world full of so much misery, you can ALWAYS rely on bollards to make things better.
#WorldBollardAssociation

First time I’ve encountered one of these stupid vehicles on the street. They are so comically wide and obscenely fast. There is no way these should be legal on city streets.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

Table For One Please.

View of cargo bikes parked on the side of the elementary school playground for first day of school drop off. You love to see it.

Home to work.
Home to school.
Home to the store.
That’s real life.

0–60 times don’t matter in any of it, except to the auto industry that profits off selling speed and death.

I was going to suggest that it would be better with markers for different speeds, but it actually has the markers already!

I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat

Powerpoint slides from a presentation entitled “Unleashing the Silent Majority to Beat Bikelash”, which feature photographs of urban transformation from cities around the world.

The global phenomenon of “bikelash” has become one of the biggest barriers to implementing interventions that make our streets more liveable, accessible and sustainable. So how do we best manage it as advocates for change? Here are eight strategies we recently presented at the Velo-city Conference.🧵

Urban arrow cargo bike

One less F-150. #urbanarrow #calgary

This is what attempted murder looks like.

two kids biking on their street one is standing on the handlebars.

Youth Mobility + Youth Independence should be key metrics of a city's success.

This is so disgusting. Denver’s DOTI has its priorities completely backwards.

Salih's ghost bike is interfering with absolutely no one.

When your DOT's policies make it easier to kill someone with a car than to place a ghost bike, they're designed to uphold a cars-first system, regardless of any action plans the DOT claims to pursue, like #VisionZero or #SRTS or #Climate.

Look at all the cyclists running this stop sign. Absolutely outrageous. If you can’t follow the rules, get off the road!

This is what you want 😉

See you Saturday morning #BikeDEN

A cute baby elephant

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Today I had a driver give me the "Sorry I almost killed you!" wave after nearly turning left into me and my friend. Of all the things drivers do, the oopsy wave is among the most infuriating to me because it completely diminishes the potentially life-altering implications of their recklessness.

Asphalt trail alongside a massive car viaduct.

Bike investment vs. car investment.