Jonathan Fertig

Hell yeah

Nice chamfered curbs too!

You’ve got a podcast!

DBL Press Release after the Mayor’s team presents his final bond project list to Council tonight.

The guy drove up onto the sidewalk and flattened this sign, then just drove off. I was riding the other way and I saw him careening back across the road toward me and started to bail before he regained control.

I almost got run over by a maniac in a 2500 this morning.
First time in a long time #DemandMore

7:59 122 • 5G+ 76) Josh Kraft Campaign > 凸 Herald "Josh Kraft rips Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on bike lanes: 'Streets are a chaotic mess'" + This is where Dr Anita Kurmann was killed in 2015. With fewer bike lanes, there will be even more fatal crashes. Text Message • SMS

7:59 122 • 5G+ 76" Josh Kraft Campaign > NATCH CLES This is bike messenger Richard's ghost bike on Commonwealth Ave. I presided at it after a driver was drag racing. Your policy will lead to more deaths. + Text Message • SMS

7:59 122 • 5G+ 76' Josh Kraft Campaign > racing. Your policy will lead to more deaths. This is Joseph Pielmier's ghost bike at Forest Hills. He too was killed because a driver hit a cyclist. Your policy will lead to more death. + Text Message • SMS

Michelle Wu's bike lanes are a disaster. Bike lanes make traffic worse. They're inconvenient for seniors and families. They harm small businesses. Most are permanently installed, even though it's too cold to ride four months a year. And yet, Mayor Wu has spent millions of your tax dollars on these bike lanes, despite strong community opposition. + Text Message • SMS

If the Josh Kraft campaign or superpac is going to unsolicitedly text me their nonsense about bike lanes in Boston, I sure as hell am going to text them back pictures of the dead.
I’ve consoled hundreds because of our unsafe #Boston roads.
Kick rocks.
#Bospoli #VisionZero

Walking down the middle of Broadway, in Denver, Colorado

Whose streets?
#NoKings

Wait, what?

Though I might need to don the TU vest again and put a plasma cutter to these horizontal bars ruining bike racks across the city.

War on Cars sticker on a bike rack with my bike parked against it.

It’s a beautiful evening in Denver, so I decided to take the long way home and ride around some neighborhoods I rarely visit. Rolled up to new-to-me Longtable Brewhouse and knew I was in the right spot @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Colfax BRT is really happening, and I couldn’t be more excited! This is the first canopy structure that I’ve seen, and it feels like they’re making really good progress.
Still wish there was bike infra included as part of the project tho…

Yeah, that was me.

Before (2020) / After (2025) the Rue aux Ecoles Rue Charles Baudelaire in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. This street school was done in 2022, and is still one of the most picturesque.

This Thursday at noon, as part of the AIA Colorado COTE Committee, I'll be presenting on passivhaus with three other local architects. I'll cover its growth in Canada (BC) & in the US (east coast) and the state of policy in North America.
Link below to register (free for AIA members)
#0.6ACH

Did you convince Hank Azaria to do the recording?

Damnit. I was on vacation and am just seeing this.
Huge loss for Colorado. Thanks for helping me understand transportation in this state as a newcomer 7 years ago.
Best of luck!

‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters planning ‘biggest day of action’ 500 events, 277 showrooms, March 29th

‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters planning ‘biggest day of action’

A town outside Denver, Colorado USA

How Upzoning in Cambridge Broke the YIMBY Mold By making buildings up to four floors legal by right across the city, the hometown of Harvard and MIT has set a new benchmark for the abundant housing movement.

Back on the beat with a story about a dramatic upzoning for Cambridge. It's now legal to build up to four stories, by right, citywide, with an affordable-bonus up for two more stories.

How Cambridge leapfrogged every YIMBY reform to build Haussmann for Harvard:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Thanks to some nudging from @bikewalkbus.bsky.social, I just sent in my letter of support for eliminating mandatory parking minimums citywide in Denver.
Join me!
bit.ly/NoParkingMins

Ugh.

Hurrah, thrilled to see PHN on here!

Really fun seeing everyone, even if I was underdressed. Hooray for cafes in parks!

Boston is always in my heart.
Miss you Mayor Wu!

New site and I’m committed to only posting bangers

Chinese Students Went on Mass Night Bike Rides. Officials Shut Them Down. Making the impromptu five-hour ride between two Chinese cities became a craze among young people. But as their numbers swelled, the authorities shut it down.

Whose streets?

Grant St, also just milled, repaved and painted with the same inhuman, auto-centric, deadly design.
What on earth are we doing here @DenverDOTI?
How are we not taking advantage of these projects? So unbelievably frustrating.

14th Ave in Cheesman Park was repaved last week, and then restriped with the same deadly three-lane one-way configuration. No bike infrastructure.
@DenverDOTI are we doing #Visionzero or nah?

uncritically.
https://www.denverpost.com/2024/08/01/sloans-lake-business-owners-parking-bike-lane/?share=gsaanarssnvka0c0knaa