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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Over the weekend in #Denver drivers hit 2 people using a scooter, another driver & 2 people on bikes, including one in West Colfax who was killed. For years, West Colfax community members have been asking (begging?) for traffic calming measures along W14th Ave. For years, they've been denied.

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

“Allowing American vehicles onto the EU market on the basis of ‘mutual recognition’ of standards is a betrayal of Europe’s safety leadership, and it will cost lives. Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated U.S. pick-up trucks and SUVs..."

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Walk and Roll Houston @walkrollhouston.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🛴Hands Off Our Scooters, Whitmire! 🛴 What he's tried to ban: Concrete medians Protests near his house Sidewalks Bike lanes Raised crosswalks The homeless BRT’s Scantily clad ladies on Washington Ave. And now scooters. www.walkandrollhouston.com/urbanizerblo... Learn more at

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Houston E-Scooter Ban: City Hall Moves Toward Downtown, Midtown, and EaDo Restrictions — Walk and Roll Houston

Houston officials propose banning e-scooters in Downtown, Midtown, and East Downtown, citing safety concerns. Residents and businesses warn the ban would remove a key mobility option.

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

No major reporting organization in the Denver metro area has covered Salih's death with such depth, showing how political decisions often lead to preventable deaths and serious injuries on our public streets. 🥀💔🥀 bucketlistcommunitycafe.com/what-is-bein...

photo of ghost bike on the corner of an intersection with two cars in the foreground

screenshot of a section of the article highlighting the names of two government officials (the executive director of the department of transportation and the elected city councilmember for district 1 in Denver)

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Salih's ghost bike is interfering with absolutely no one. When your DOT's policies make it easier to kill someone with a car than to place a ghost bike, they're designed to uphold a cars-first system, regardless of any action plans the DOT claims to pursue, like #VisionZero or #SRTS or #Climate.

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

With permission from Salih's family, DBL is organizing a ghost bike dedication at the crash site (W38th Ave & Tejon St) on Saturday, 8/2, at 11 AM. Please join us, especially if you are a community member in District 1 (Denver, CO), & share w/your neighbors. 🤍🚲🤍🥀❤️🥀 @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social

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Denver Bicycle Lobby @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We are getting unconfirmed reports that the victim of the fatal hit and run bike crash on Tejon Street was 21 year old student, Salih Koç. We send our deepest sympathy to their family, friends, and community in Turkey.

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Rob Toftness @nosquish.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Yes, a protected bike lane could have made a difference for the crossing. Just to get that out there before the inevitable bad faith push back

Original design shows the intersection would have received safety treatments too including a bike light

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

As we approach Mayor Johnston's State of the City address, I'm wondering if @kyle-a-harris.bsky.social will ask him about his broken promises from these answers: denverite.com/2023/03/09/a... & denverite.com/2023/06/08/m...

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A very Denverite mayoral questionnaire: Mike Johnston

We asked candidates about the Park Hill Golf Course conservation land easement, Denver's future, sweeps and more.

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"shunning all nonmotorized life" = most of our transportation/mobility infrastructure sent to the margins, pushed to the edges (h/t @jonathonstalls.bsky.social), beneficiaries of "accommodations" after motorized traffic has been studied, prioritized, made more convenient undignified

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Remember: The Bus is For All of Us (and so fun)! 💚🚌 www.facebook.com/share/p/1EWQ...

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Redirecting...

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#Denver again in the Top 10 (at #6) of most-polluted cities in the U.S. But it doesn't have to be this way. We have plans, a Climate Protection Fund, policies. What do we need? Courageous political leaders.

https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities

https://unfccc.int/news/seven-ways-cities-can-take-climate-action

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

When they say: "The road doesn't have enough space for a bus lane." We say: "Bus lanes increase the people-moving capacity of our public roadways."

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The message I hear whenever I approach one... [Remember to "push it forward," friends, for the next person who needs to cross the street.]

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"It was cyclists, not drivers, who first prodded cities to introduce traffic safety rules."

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

YES! 😍Air quality also improves around our young people with still-developing lungs. Hearing human voices, chatting, laughing, birds chirping--it's also good for the human soul.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Walking did not merely decline. It was deterred. In mid-century Rochester, a city of 330,000 people, about 1-2 pedestrians were killed every month. ...

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Denver Bike Tales @denverbiketales.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

5/9/25: Gray BMW sedan driver ran a red light on Federal at 41st as a cyclist tried to cross the intersection. A middle school student was hit by a driver in this intersection earlier this year. #schoolstreets

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"Much of the class conflict in housing politics..."

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Inspired by a proposed Denver ordinance to regulate shared scooter/e-bike companies, I'm drafting one for automobile rental companies. What am I missing? Learn more here: denver.legistar.com/LegislationD...

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Hi, I’m a wheelchair user. This parking configuration would necessitate me backtracking to the curb cut and rolling in the street for at least a block where people drive monstrously huge vehicles. In short: don’t fucking be this car owner.

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

How to message the movement to reduce car dependence ⤵️ www.latimes.com/california/s... @streetsblogla.bsky.social

“It is my hope that this lawsuit will bring the city to the negotiating table and will result in street improvements that save lives, foster public health, stem climate-harming emissions, and improve the quality of life for Vermont Avenue’s pedestrians, bus riders, and bicyclists,” Linton said in a statement on Streetsblog.

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Keith Reed @keithandhisbike.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Dammit. Here's your regular reminder that when it comes to breaking the deadly car dependency cycle, public input meetings are just performative bullshit. Huge missed opportunity to save lives and improve the quality of life for so many others. 💩

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It isn't only about no longer expanding highways, @govofco.bsky.social, it is also about repairing the HARM to human connection, public health & access for all. What a missed opportunity to show transformational leadership by de-centering the private automobile from transportation decision, #CDOT

https://mailchi.mp/codot/i-25-speer-23rd-project-public-involvement-opportunities-7072335?e=7d4b0b61ad

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

HB25-1147 protects the most vulnerable Coloradans prosecuted in municipal court by aligning municipal court sentencing w/state courts, guaranteeing access to defense counsel, & ⬆️transparency in municipal courts across CO. Our state needs these changes *now.* 📣 Action kit at bit.ly/SignHB1147!

A cell phone is pictured while on a call with Governor Polis. Text reads “ACTION ALERT, Contact Gov. Polis NOW! Tell him: Sign HB25-1147 Municipal Court Fairness!” At the bottom, an action kit is linked at bit.ly/SignHB1147.

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Allen Cowgill @allencowgill.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Check out plans for this road diet for West 38th Ave in Denver. Be still my heart. Designs like this have the potential to make this deadly street so much safer and more vibrant for residents and businesses.

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Who said this? (I wrote it down but can’t remember the author.) “A good [] system minimizes unnecessary transport; and in any event, it offers a change of speed and mode to fit a diversity of human purposes .”

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Denver has money for a public golf course but not for people to wait with dignity at a public bus stop. #WaitingForDignity #EsperandoPorDignidad

Broken bench at a bus stop next to a wide road for cars with a golf course in the background

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 25/03/2025

“It’s not about making cities better for bikes, but making cities better with bikes. Ultimately, every resident has something to gain, from all of the qualitative benefits that come with having fewer cars filtering through our streets and clogging up our public spaces.” WATCH: buff.ly/EEhnHEN

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I felt this in my bones, brain & heart rate today while we rode bikes to highlight unlivable design along Sheridan Blvd in #Denver, our voices drowned by traffic noise right next to North Denver's largest park. @drcog.bsky.social @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Come hang out with people who love people-friendly streets! We're fun, I promise. 🚲🏃‍♀️🚸⚽🏓

flyer for a Larimer Street Block Party on Sunday 3/30 from 12-3 pm outside Ratio Brewing in Denver, CO. Bring chairs, blankets, cards, balls, anything to make it a fun time.

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Two minutes to goooo! Let's do this. 🦾#NoHighwayExpansions

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Despite the feeling that there's little progress & even less good news lately, I'm inspired by those who invest their time & energy in joyful events like the #DenverBikeFest 🎊🚲🎊 Learn more (including about how to volunteer) here: www.zcycledenver.com/denverbikefest

screenshot of a flyer: Denver Bikefest 2025, a celebration of everyday cycling. City park pavilion, Saturday April 26 2025 from 3 to 9:30 PM

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🚏🚌 ART FOR CHANGE! Local artists are spotlighting poor conditions at Denver's bus stops w/installations in underserved areas. #WaitingForDignity 💬 Share your experience waiting for the🚌: Text/VM: 720-449-6450 Advocate: bit.ly/BetterBusStopsNow @jonathonstalls.bsky.social @that5280lady.bsky.social

picture of art installation with a dinosaur wearing a backpack and rolling a suitcase on a parking lot

picture of a carboard figure with a boombox head and red shoes sitting on two car tires with a bus and bus stop in the background

picture of a young man sitting on a bus stop bench with colorful figures behind him locked to a fence

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Does signage work, for consistent enforcement that keeps people safe?

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