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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Do any of you face similar challenges

    Sounds like, I’m in a fairly ideal suburb for everything I need but the distances can be far for things I want

    do you just drive when it makes the most sense to drive?

    My biggest mental shift was instead of “driving if it makes sense to drive” to “driving if it doesn’t make sense to walk/bike/transit.”

    Basically I look at all other methods of transit/destinations first; then drive only if required.

    Biggest example: I usually take the bike and trailer to drop my kid off at daycare on the way to work. Weather hasn’t stopped me yet; but if the school busses are canceled, I will drive because there’s a marked increase in more drivers paying less attention on the roads I must take. If I had separated bike facilities I could still bike.










  • We had a neat thing happen in my city recently.

    A bridge was closed for repairs for 4 months. During that time, no one used the road approaching the bridge on either side! That’s a ton of lane that nobody was using, but we decided to not take it out.

    Shockingly, once the bridge was replaced, drivers started using those two sections of road again.


  • As Boulder police commander Darren Fladung told Denver’s 9News, “I appreciate the fact that it’s drawing attention to the fact that we’d like people to slow down and not be on their phones, but there’s probably, again, a few more appropriate ways about getting that message out.”

    Then why aren’t you already doing those more appropriate things?