PBOT has made major progress on the N Willamette Blvd project. Here’s the new bikeway going south into the N Rosa Parks turn.
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![Jim Riesberg, founder of nonprofit advocacy group Greeley Walks and organizer of events like Week Without Driving and World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims, said he thinks Greeley is on a solid trajectory when it comes to transportation reform. "I think Greeley is way ahead of many other cities, particularly of its size and the attention that they're paying to transportation, mobility, safe streets, improving public transportation and making it easier for people to get around," Riesberg shared with me in an interview this morning.
During Lee's tenure as city manager, the Greeley Public Works Department has been busy with traffic calming initiatives, Riesberg says. "A number of what were four-lane streets have now been reduced to two-lane streets by painting medians and things in them." Riesberg also added that Lee hasn't attended any meetings or forums he has hosted and he's never seen Lee at a meeting of the city's Citizens Transportation Advisory Board.
As for the quality of bike infrastructure? Riesberg said Greeley has 27 miles of bike lanes and the majority of them are of the unprotected, door zone variety.
"The city has increased the number of bike lanes getting into the downtown area," Riesberg shared, "But we don't have any good bike parking stations in downtown yet. We're working on that."
Riesberg also said he was "shocked" by the resignation of former Public Works Director Paul Trombino, who left his post shortly after Lee resigned. "I had high praise for [Trombineo]," Riesberg shared. "And [his resignation] really shocked me because I thought he was just moving Greeley in a very important direction — and quite rapidly. So I'm not sure what happened there."
When Riesberg asked city council members about why Trombino resigned, they didn't tell. "They won't share anything," he says. "They just said, 'I can't get into that.'"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:opfzfo3c36xwexc34ql5ucke/bafkreicwtvoojs2wkrwdptcqh4yrrlob7fzkcubmsbteil7ys425kbegju)
