Andrew

Terrible story but great reporting by Laura Penington of the Denver Post:
- "A man died... after being hit by the driver of a van while riding his bike"
- "the driver struck him from behind"

And some extra context that you rarely ever see:
- "There are no bike lanes along that stretch of road"

It's difficult to overstate how much a bike paradise Amsterdam is. Such a quiet, comfortable city.

Very surprising behavior from a driver with March 2022 plates!

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Very illuminating clip here: Los Angeles City Councilmember Imelda Padilla criticizes SB 79 because it limits local elected officials’ power to block new housing, then @jonlovett.bsky.social reminds her that we have a massive housing shortage that is strangling our state’s growth.

NEWS: U.S. developers report half of new electric generating capacity will come from solar Developers are on track to add a record 64 GW of new US power capacity in 2025, with solar doing more than half of the heavy lifting. (EIA) In the first half of this year, 12 GW of new utility-scale ....

Free markets still prefer cheap power. No matter how much the Trump administration tries to force the expensive stuff on us. www.energycentral.com/renewables/p...

Is there a more dorky looking vegetable than okra?

Happy Thursday to everyone except this person who shouldn't have a license

“If you DON’T change the physical character of your community, you WILL change the demographic and economic character of your community.” - William Fulton at the Casita Coalition’s Build The Middle National Housing Convening

Democratized land use planning was a mistake.

"Private equity is causing the housing crisis" is a very common take that mixes up cause and effect. Single-family homes are an attractive investment vehicle for private equity because there's a shortage of them, not the other way around.

Barreling through a four-way stop at 30 mph is how folks get killed.

In Denver, July had the most bike-vehicle incidents since August 2020.

Does anyone know how Denver's Critical Mass rides are? Considering joining this evening given the recent events in the city

yikes -- Powell shakes his head as Trump rips into him for the cost of Fed building renovations. Powell denies some of the claims Trump is making.

Was just about to hop on my bike before this hit, but turns out I'm going to need a boat

Transporting groceries by bike

Obama’s blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’ | CNN Politics Former President Barack Obama issued a call to action for Democrats at a private fundraiser in New Jersey on Friday evening, urging those frustrated by the state of the country under President Donald ...

“‘I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily because of NIMBY,’ [Obama] said…‘I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter.’”

Obama has gone full YIMBY. Love to see it

The city facing a budget crisis is going to spend $200M to create a park with zip lining and water features instead of building housing.

I'm sure the park will be lovely, but this is maddening.

The industrial area to the east of the park should be rezoned MX to make this begin to make sense.

I gotta say, as a Jew, it’s incredibly fucked up and sad that Elon Musk and Grok being Nazi sympathizers hasn’t caused a mass exodus (or coordinated boycott) from X.

I don’t like to shame people for what is clearly a failure of collective action, but honestly, what the fuck?

Breaking Down the One Big Beautiful Bill | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget 2025-06-04-Note: (06/23/2025) Some categorizations and numbers in the Ways and Means' section of the table below have been updated to more accurately reflect the bill's potential impact.

At an estimated cost of $57 Billion the deduction for auto loans will amount to ~three times the amount spent on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure by the federal government in the last 35 years www.crfb.org/blogs/breaki...

Instead of Safe Routes to School, we get new trucks in the pick up line

If a citizen wish-casted their personal finances like this, Bessent and Republicans would shame them into oblivion.

a graph of NYC approval of congestion pricing rising from 27% to 50%

It's insane how much more popular NYC's congestion pricing got when it was implemented and people started actually seeing it work

"To the NIMBY movement that is now being replaced by the YIMBY movement, I say: Go YIMBYs!" @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

Just One More Lane Bro meme

"We don't control the market" is such a lazy response from a mayor. You have tools at your disposal to lower development costs. Also, the housing crisis didn't appear overnight.

It's finally time to crack this bad boy open

Sir, we cannot afford to have bikes not being counted by these sensors with this DOTI leadership...

In Defense of the Aesthetics of Flex Posts In 2016, Denver declared its aspiration to be a city where zero people die or are injured in traffic crashes on our streets. Becoming that crashless city requires changing our streets, fast. In the na...

New DenverUrbanism post from me, "In Defense of the Aesthetics of Flex Posts" which attempts to counter the constant complaints about how city streets look when we use quick-build materials to make them safer
denverurbanism.com/2025/06/in-d...