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.

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?

“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

“‘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.

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.

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

"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...

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...

Not too shabby after a couple months away from the Ooni

Egos are approaching astronomical sizes on Montview today 😂 Is challenging random folks a common thing in the biking-for-sport world?

We are approaching hour 15 of Heroku/Salesforce being down. Is that bad?

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

I was on Pearl St when this happened. Did not see the attack but saw the group of protestors just a minute before at 13th and Pearl. First responders were so casually walking that I thought someone had just passed out.

Douglas County might as well be Alabama. The comments from the community in this article are unhinged. www.cbsnews.com/amp/colorado...

"That simpler time has been replaced with the realization that paving half a city into a checkerboard of parking lots sucks the soul out of a place and actually makes it harder to live in cities." 📍Denver, CO

Season 2 of The Rehearsal is a masterpiece. Nathan Fielder is mad.

I created a heat map animation of Denver bike and pedestrian incidents dating back to 2019. The frames represent 6 month periods. I need to update the title to display the action window. Bluesky doesn't support custom gifs, so best I can do is an Imgur link for now. imgur.com/a/7bK3fyt

Ah, just another day in Denver

This is depressing yet fascinating

Yesterday it was announced the Jackson KY office of NWS will go to part time operations. Today a Level 4 of 5 severe weather risk with strong tornadoes and widespread wind damage possible there. Not great.

I cannot stop thinking about this episode 😭

Denver incidents resulting in serious bodily injury or fatality by mode of transit and year as a percent of all incidents for that mode. Cars have gotten safer while city street designs have not.

Suburban local governments have been fighting these state housing mandate legislation for years while not doing a damn thing to boost housing development. Why do they have this much power

Denver DOTI is an absolute joke. Five years and counting to decide what to do about a two mile stretch of residential street www.9news.com/video/news/l...

Freakonomics is going to need to write a new book solely focused on the current administration

Hovering around 2 bike incidents per month on E 16th Ave, probably Denver's most continuous E-W bike route north of 7th Ave

Finally spun up a domain for this dashboard: denver.zerovision.dev/public/dashb... Check it out and let me know if there's any data you'd like to see added. #BikeDEN

Denver is building so many new apartments that vacancy rates reached a 16-year high and the average rent has fallen below levels seen two years ago, according to the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. The average apartment rent in metro Denver fell to $1,819 in the first quarter.

I pulled Denver's traffic incident data into a DB and loaded it all up into Metabase. Very much a work in progress, but this is pretty bleak stuff. COVID skews the trend quite a bit if you go back to the beginning of the data, so these charts start in ~March 2020.

Denver Bike Fest was good and cool. Shout out to the folks who organized.

YIMBY Denver is supporting important smart stair reform to allow for more beautiful and affordable buildings. It goes Senate Committee this Tuesday. Contact your Senator and ask them to support this bill! actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...