Just your average Saturday afternoon in February when @slsees.bsky.social runs laps around the Whale (dressed as the Whale) hoping for some snow

The GOP is entering the “finding out” phase of gerrymandering. By the same metric, Dems got almost 40% of the vote in Utah and currently hold zero congressional seats due to gerrymandering

“For the second year in a row, a bill based on a conspiracy theory about “chemtrails” in Utah skies has failed to get to the finish line.” Glad the media is using the term conspiracy theory for this. A shame we keep using government resources to discuss this garbage

First mountain bike ride in 12+ years. I’m happy to report I survived

From a human perspective, I feel for these athletes. They worked their whole life to be at the Olympics, and now their country is very unpopular around the world. But their discomfort pales against the suffering this administration has caused within and outside the U.S.

lol apparently people on Twitter in Utah (are they real?) won’t be watching the halftime show. My ENTIRE family is so excited for Señor Benito

One of the best albums of the new millennium

Italians Mad at Food, update: 6 of the 7 adults at tonight’s dinner had lasagna and salad on the same plate. Guess who was the only one who didn’t do that!?

Spreading out the legislative session over three mini-sessions will increase my blood pressure three times a year (albeit for a shorter time) vs one (but longer). Not sure what's better for my health, but I assume one but longer

My colleagues and I wrote a report that finds that traffic calming saves lives and improves quality of life. You can read the summary and the report at the link below. If you're in Utah, please share it with your state legislator + Sen Harper and ask them to vote no on SB 242

As Patton Oswalt said eloquently, it only takes one Nazi in a bar to turn it into a Nazi bar. Kudos to the bar management. If you’re in Vegas, please go support Bottled Blonde

I almost got hit by a driver in front of my neighborhood’s elementary school. He didn’t stop as he was exiting the school property despite a tight turn and big stop sign. I’m of course in favor of all traffic calming we can do, but how do we get dangerous drivers to give a damn about pedestrians?

Should cars only be sold if in high-vis colors? And should car drivers wear helmets, too?

There’s a reason it’s called “the Nazi website”

Sometimes, I wonder if the world's so small that we can never get away from the sprawl. Living in the sprawl, dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains, and there's no end in sight. I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights.

Worth noting: traffic calming & road diets reduce speeds (and thus increase safety & throughput) but generally don't increase travel time in urban places. These suburban drivers *perceive* a delay because they have to pay more attention and aren't able to accelerate as fast between the red lights.

To suburban drivers used to having 100% of road space in their suburb, having to slow down a bit in the city because a pedestrian is crossing feels like oppression. I believe this helps explain some of the state laws preventing blue cities from doing traffic calming or road diets

It’s about making friends, not enemies

The GOP doesn't care about people's lives. They care about their "freedom" to drive everywhere and to do so without inconveniences, the lives of people in SLC be damned

My friend Taylor has great advice for bike and housing advocates

Great to see LOVE by Robert Indiana on the U of Utah campus

Utah Legislature to SLC: "Don't you dare rip out any street parking; there's nowhere to park downtown." Downtown SLC:

Utah voters: if you, friends, or family have been tricked into signing the Prop 4 repeal initiative, you can ask your name to be removed. First, check whether the name is on the signatory list at this link

Italians Mad at Food, coffee edition. The other day, I saw students ordering cappuccino *in the afternoon*, and I couldn't help but give them the judgmental stare my nonna used to give me

Good analysis and action items from Sweet Streets SLC on SB 242, this year's attempt by the Utah Legislature to control Salt Lake City's streets and limit safety projects. Please contact - The bill sponsors - The entire transportation committees on the Senate and House - Your reps

Good morning from sagebrush land

Making lanes 12’ wide and ripping out a couple of bike lanes should definitely fix this

The “woke” Cato Institute with a study on the economic benefits of immigrants on tax revenue

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

"Why would the state not want us to address one of the leading causes of death in the city?" Salt Lake City leaders voice concerns on a new bill that calls on the city to partner with UDOT before moving forward on new road safety projects #utpol www.ksl.com/article/5144...

Salt Lake City should ban dirty sodas while GOP state legislators are in town for the session

It’s that time of year

Italians mad at food, Feb 3 edition: I know it’s irrational, but I can’t stand it when Americans add salad to a plate that has pasta on it. The two simply don’t go together, and you can eat one after the other

Salt Lake City: You gotta fight. For your right. To safe streets. The article below includes a good breakdown of the new transportation bill that takes away our right to design our own streets and how to contact Utah lawmakers

Salt Lake City and Utah active transportation community: The new transportation bill is out (SB 242), and the first version is not as bad as it could be. It requires SLC and UDOT to agree upon a classification of city streets in tiers (see preliminary map below). A quick 🧵

I wish that more people on the left understood that their supply denialism and opposition to denser market housing is a big gift to wealthy homeowners, investors, and the Republican Party

Snow Job

We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

San Mateo apparently gets to keep bike lanes on a 4-block stretch of Humboldt St (from Indian Ave to 2nd Ave), but the city is hiring a consultant to determine whether the street can be turned into a 1-way to restore parking. At a $10m price tag, how much will each parking spot cost?

The weaponization of “justice speak” to protect car dependency, which historically has and still is disproportionately harming low income people of color

Hey, at least Salt Lake City is likely gonna be forced to by the State of Utah to rip out recent bike lanes. It’s not shooting itself in the foot like San Mateo. This is good?

Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Lol, they’re upset that an American citizen who sings in Spanish isn’t American enough. I honestly can’t name a single song by any of these performers

You know the snow situation in Utah is bad when ski resorts will give you resort credit if you visit them. The ski industry is hurting, but this follows years of record profits

Lead (Pb) in archived hair in Salt Lake City. "Lead (Pb) in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans since the establishment of the US Environmental Protection Agency " www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The pedestrian was hit a 4-way stop. No way the pickup truck driver should be fast enough to inflict so much damage after coming to a complete stop. Unless they didn’t do so or accelerated super fast. Also, please remind me why people need such huge vehicles on city streets

So many accounts of people being lied to by signature gatherers for Prop 4 repeal. If you, your family, and your friends were tricked into signing, you can ask your name to be removed: vote.utah.gov/how-do-i-rem...

Utah's Prop. 4 repeal had its worst day yet on Monday: just 576 new signatures added to the total. They need 74,771 more in just 13 days. The district math is even harsher. Full breakdown at the link: utahpolitics.news/utahs-prop-4...

Interesting data from the Ken C Gardner Policy Institute at the U of Utah showing that many counties aren’t building enough starter homes in Utah

The framing reflects a structural problem in how media engages with academic research. Within the academic literature, there's theoretical/empirical consensus that building more housing reduces costs. But one working paper disagrees, and so now it's a "debate." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...