Sasha Kestane

Mr. Walker is a kindly man, until...

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What could happen if instead of "expecting delays [for drivers] in the area," Community expected (and got) immediate+effective safety upgrades to prevent another tragedy?

What can decision makers do to prevent these predictable tragedies? Are they willing to listen and learn from advocates? Are they willing to #PrioritizePeople & put #SafetyFirst? Is a system that expects unpaid advocates to hold paid officials accountable fair, just, equitable?

Public messages emphasizes personal responsibility, denying Community of systemic, public-health interventions that save lives & support livability. Wheater a motorist "stayed on scene" or was a "hit-and-run" driver, death is still final. Injuries have long-term impacts on crash victims & families.

Denver transportation officials are supposed to employ a #VisionZero Rapid Response process that "engages advocacy" after a fatal or serious-injury crash, but advocates have been denied meaningful engagement opportunities.

Over the weekend in #Denver drivers hit 2 people using a scooter, another driver & 2 people on bikes, including one in West Colfax who was killed. For years, West Colfax community members have been asking (begging?) for traffic calming measures along W14th Ave. For years, they've been denied.

“Allowing American vehicles onto the EU market on the basis of ‘mutual recognition’ of standards is a betrayal of Europe’s safety leadership, and it will cost lives. Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated U.S. pick-up trucks and SUVs..."

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Houston E-Scooter Ban: City Hall Moves Toward Downtown, Midtown, and EaDo Restrictions — Walk and Roll Houston Houston officials propose banning e-scooters in Downtown, Midtown, and East Downtown, citing safety concerns. Residents and businesses warn the ban would remove a key mobility option.

🛴Hands Off Our Scooters, Whitmire! 🛴

What he's tried to ban:
Concrete medians
Protests near his house
Sidewalks
Bike lanes
Raised crosswalks
The homeless
BRT’s
Scantily clad ladies on Washington Ave.
And now scooters.
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Learn more at

photo of ghost bike on the corner of an intersection with two cars in the foreground

screenshot of a section of the article highlighting the names of two government officials (the executive director of the department of transportation and the elected city councilmember for district 1 in Denver)

No major reporting organization in the Denver metro area has covered Salih's death with such depth, showing how political decisions often lead to preventable deaths and serious injuries on our public streets. 🥀💔🥀

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Something we hear a lot in my U.S. city is that bike lanes/changes to the cars-first status quo leads to gentrification/displacement/inaccessible spaces. That working class & disabled folx need cars/trucks to make a living/get places (ignoring the fact that many are nondrivers). How do you answer?

This 100%

To be fair, you can't be expected to see outside of your giant truck/SUV.

Drivers can be distracted by many things. The distraction I most often see is drivers looking at their cell phone, or eating, or putting on makeup, or talking to the person sitting next to/behind them. Lots of things distract drivers. Distraction doesn't need to result in death/injury. #SafeSystem

Watch and tell me what's most likely to "impede the ADA ramp in that location" and "interfere with pedestrian traffic and the traffic light sight triangle."

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.

@jonathonstalls.bsky.social @bikewalkbus.bsky.social @amerikaliturkler.bsky.social

With permission from Salih's family, DBL is organizing a ghost bike dedication at the crash site (W38th Ave & Tejon St) on Saturday, 8/2, at 11 AM. Please join us, especially if you are a community member in District 1 (Denver, CO), & share w/your neighbors. 🤍🚲🤍🥀❤️🥀

@denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social

We are getting unconfirmed reports that the victim of the fatal hit and run bike crash on Tejon Street was 21 year old student, Salih Koç. We send our deepest sympathy to their family, friends, and community in Turkey.

Devastating. Preventable. 💔

Yes, a protected bike lane could have made a difference for the crossing.

Just to get that out there before the inevitable bad faith push back

#PedestrianDignity with @sashakestane.bsky.social

A very Denverite mayoral questionnaire: Mike Johnston We asked candidates about the Park Hill Golf Course conservation land easement, Denver's future, sweeps and more.

As we approach Mayor Johnston's State of the City address, I'm wondering if @kyle-a-harris.bsky.social will ask him about his broken promises from these answers: denverite.com/2023/03/09/a... & denverite.com/2023/06/08/m...

"shunning all nonmotorized life" = most of our transportation/mobility infrastructure

sent to the margins, pushed to the edges (h/t @jonathonstalls.bsky.social), beneficiaries of "accommodations" after motorized traffic has been studied, prioritized, made more convenient

undignified

It makes a lot of sense once you've taken the Undoing Racism(R) workshop from The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond. Highly recommend it. pisab.org/undoing-raci...

Remember: The Bus is For All of Us (and so fun)! 💚🚌 www.facebook.com/share/p/1EWQ...

https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities

https://unfccc.int/news/seven-ways-cities-can-take-climate-action

#Denver again in the Top 10 (at #6) of most-polluted cities in the U.S. But it doesn't have to be this way. We have plans, a Climate Protection Fund, policies. What do we need? Courageous political leaders.

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