On this Election Day, remember: Opposition to public #transit is motivated by industries and investors who win when we’re dependent on cars. The reason is simple: Reducing vehicle miles (#VMT) reduces statistical car sales and associated revenues. jilladlergrano.substack.com/p/big-money-...

Your annual reminder that US streets and vehicles are generally not designed to keep pedestrians, especially small ones, safe. So wonderful Halloween is the most likely day you’ll kill a child with your car, and someone will kill a child you care about with theirs. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Boulder and Nederland area folks: This Saturday, November 1, attend Nederland’s block party for revival and recovery!

Coming soon: 35 blocks of dedicated new bus lanes on one of #Boulder’s key intercity corridors—Arapahoe (also CO7) from 28th to 63rd! bouldercolorado.gov/news/east-ar...

I love you, #Boulder. We deserve so much better. Together, we will create it. #NoKings Boulder, CO 10/18/2025

My latest #Boulder, CO city council update is out. Lots going on, including automated traffic enforcement coming to more intersections this fall. (It’s still free to drive the speed limit and obey red lights. 😀) www.ryanwithboulder.com/campaigns/vi...

In the 2025 #Boulder city council election, should voters focus on crime? Maybe, and crime is a crucial issue. But the data might surprise you. Here’s Jill Grano on the numbers, and what’s been going on under this council and the previous one’s watch. jilladlergrano.substack.com/p/crime-in-b...

Nobody wants to pay more fees. But we also pay for substandard pavement conditions and deferred maintenance that costs more in the long run. Well done to the City of #Boulder staff team to pass a transportation maintenance fee that will... boulderreportinglab.org/2025/10/09/b...

News of the fire that has taken out Nederland's shopping center, and the beloved Wild Bear Nature Center, is devastating. Thank you to first responders for containing it quickly and avoiding any loss of human life. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

“In this moment of political, economic and climate turmoil, the #Boulder City Council has managed to keep our city heading in the right direction.” That’s Daily Camera—endorsing all 4 incumbents for reelection out of 11. That’s: Speer Folkerts Benjamin Wallach www.dailycamera.com/2025/10/05/c...

God bless Portland.

I’m grateful for the partnership btw #Boulder, @colorado.gov, and state+local leaders which is on the verge of bringing 2 new passenger train services to life: * Commuter rail from Boulder Junction to Denver by 2029 * Boardings to Winter Park 20ish miles south of Boulder even sooner

The Millennium Harvest House Hotel in #Boulder has given way to central, no-car-needed housing for 1000ish CU students now being built. 🤩 TiL the old building lives on: Thousands of truckloads are being reconstituted into 9+ miles of the new game-changing CO 119 bike path to Longmont. 😍

Watching a panel on "urbanism as climate action." This is a huge, burgeoning field/idea/movement, but the desiccated boomer counsels who decide where climate funding goes are *clueless* about it and so it has to seek funding elsewhere.

City of #Boulder has concluded its mega #parking reform. Parking minimums are now gone. So all those patches of 200 square feet that home-builders have been required to install at a cost of $30,000+ per space can now be used for other things like vegetable gardens, bike parking, and housing.

One of greatest gifts of being an elected official: The chance to sit with ppl who didn’t vote for me & ask me to consider a reasoned alternative to my thinking—then talk. It always makes me stronger. There’s no room in the US for political violence. The way to a better future is better ideas.

Sometimes people fight “growth” while lamenting how long the list is to get senior housing. Other times they seek you out at an event to say thanks for being persistent about improving transportation options and present with their gratitude a disco ball. I will be donating to council chambers.

Great news: #Boulder Junction’s getting a burst of new transit service. Depot Square Station opens Aug 31 to serve DEN airport (AB2), downtown Denver (FF4), & more. Thanks RTD & partners for making it happen. + Great kickoff event @boulderchamber.bsky.social www.rtd-denver.com/community/ne...

My endorsements for the 2025 #Boulder city council election: ✓ Nicole Speer, PhD ✓ Lauren Folkerts ✓ Matt Benjamin They are behind much of the progress our current council has made on housing, transpo, climate, inclusion, & the city’s financial strength—and they bring great prospects for more.

Progress check time for #Boulder city council. My term goes through November 2026, putting my cohort somewhere between a little more than halfway done and rounding third base. During the past 1.5 years this council has enacted at least two dozen measures to meaningfully improve #housing and…

Boulder city council implemented new rules for open comment on Thursday (August 7, 2025) Something I’d add to the reporting so far: With the new format, council business beyond open comment was insulated from disruptions. www.dailycamera.com/2025/08/07/b...

Thanks to the nearly 100 residents of #Boulder who hand-wrote notes to support safety/accessibility improvements to Folsom Street. Plus the so many others who’ve been working to move this project forward over the last decade. Boulder city council approved it unanimously today.

US streets are far more dangerous than they need to be. But they don’t just design themselves. And there’s a lot of variability in what gets done. The accountability we should be talking more about is the accountability of city planners, executives, and electeds. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

Local government holds the keys to so much of our future. And local journalism makes it work. I’m so glad for all the public-minded local wonks and jocks out there making it happen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

#Boulder city council is back in session and this Thursday (8/7/25) we have a big one: Council will consider approval as-is of protected bikeways and a road diet to #FolsomStreet, the third in a troika of safety/accessibility improvements to arterials by this council (after Iris and N 30th).

This is a great podcast primer on #Boulder’s 20-year comprehensive plan we are now redeveloping—by @bouldercolorado.bsky.social. Probably the single best way to meaningfully shape Boulder’s future, and lots of work still to be done. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

For years, research scientists have said to make life better and tackle climate change, cities should stop planning for cars and start planning for access. It's been crickets.   Last week, #Boulder said "let's do it."   On July 24, Boulder city council passed ordinance 8702, which…

PSA for #Boulder: It’s still free to drive under the speed limit. www.axios.com/local/denver...

Is #Boulder, CO full? Let’s have a look at data. The 5th largest city in Colorado in 1960, Boulder is now #12. In 1970, 3% of all Coloradans lived in Boulder. By 2020, it was 1.8%. Boulder’s population growth rate was 7%+ in the 1970s. The rate declined to 0-1% today.

The scale of Trump’s dismantling of science, civil liberties, environmental protections, healthcare, jobs, and other treasures of our town is so vast it is hard to keep track of. So here is a list: www.ryanwithboulder.com/trump It’s a running collection of stories about the impacts to #Boulder.

What an honor to cut the ribbon with Congressman @joeneguse.bsky.social for 750 tube-to-workers at Boulder’s 2025 18th annual Tube to Work Day. Much gratitude to the tubers who have gone before—and here’s to Boulder’s best tubing days being ahead. www.westword.com/arts/photos-...

No kings for #Boulder, Colorado.

Last night #Boulder city council moved a package of parking policies closer to completion that will: * Eliminate “parking minimums” which unnecessarily force car parking and traffic into the city

Update on the #Boulder attack: A wider group of my city council colleagues have made a statement: bouldercolorado.gov/news/city-bo... We are united in condemning this hateful act of terror against Jewish people.

I am heartbroken to learn about the attack today on Boulder’s Jewish community. My heart goes out to the victims, their families, their loved ones, and all who have been and are being impacted by this act of violence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

There will be a press conference on the #Boulder attack at 6:30 pm (6/1/25) at x.com/boulderpolic...

Job alert: #Boulder’s Transportation & Mobility director. A great opportunity to lead Boulder and city transportation (and #climate) practice into the future. I’ll be at @nacto.bsky.social this week if anyone wants a POV. Or DM me. jobs.crelate.com/portal/rafte...

One of the top ways to cut large amounts of GHG emissions in North America is to do things that can make life better anyway. -New Nature paper on 21 solutions for climate action and well-being together. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

My newsletter on the view from Boulder City Council for April is out. Have a look for (1) recent developments, (2) what I’m learning, and (3) what’s coming up. And subscribe here to send future issues to your inbox: www.ryanwithboulder.com/newsletter www.ryanwithboulder.com/campaigns/vi...

Lots at stake for the many towns with US DOT projects awarded but not disbursed. Senate Committee on Env. and Public Works has an opp to clarify funding must go out w/o delay. Thanks @nacto.bsky.social for representing Americans’ wellbeing & responsible climate action. nacto.org/latest/state...

Sundance is coming to #Boulder! Solid work from the team here and a sign Boulder’s recent efforts to make the town more wonderful is creating new gravity. Look forward to welcoming Sundancegoers and building a partnership to create new possibilities all around. www.sundance.org/blogs/sundan...

The # of high fire-risk days/year in #Boulder has grown from 14 in 2005 to 116 in 2022 and projected to be 192 by 2030. That’s from a new study specifically on Boulder commissioned by the city. This is a future we need to plan and build differently for. boulderreportinglab.org/2025/03/23/b...

Working on climate change can be discouraging. But even though the effort can seem insignificant, every fraction of a degree prevented will avoid great suffering. AND it’s realistic that the climate could be more sensitive than we have been thinking. www.newscientist.com/article/2473...

Lots of good things happens with renewables and electrification. We need to ensure regular people, not just investors, are concretely & transparently benefiting from their advantages. And get planful about transitioning away from problematic natural gas. boulderreportinglab.org/2025/03/13/b...

Let’s be clear about the impact of this DOT memo: Pedestrians and cyclists are going to die. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/12/b...

Transportation is full of surprises. One is that transportation is generally managed without a logical overall purpose. There are lots of transportation metrics: VMT here, and also KSI, modeshare, LOS, GHG, etc. 1/6

It’s now *finally* finally done: Boulder has ended discriminatory limits on the # of ppl who can live together who don’t have traditional family relationships. The city’s occupancy limits are now governed by international standards for health and safety. boulderreportinglab.org/2025/03/06/b...

Changing land use is actually faster than changing vehicle fleets. Great discussion w/ @mateosfo.bsky.social and @volts.wtf on why liberating middle infill housing is a powerful and practical #climate solution. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...