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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

IMO, anti-immigrant sentiment, policies and practices are rooted in xenophobia. People who are xenophobic are unable to examine data, research, evidence and come to a rational conclusion. We have a Xenophobic in Chief who is adept at manipulation, stoking fear and anxiety.

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

What could happen if instead of "expecting delays [for drivers] in the area," Community expected (and got) immediate+effective safety upgrades to prevent another tragedy?

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

What can decision makers do to prevent these predictable tragedies? Are they willing to listen and learn from advocates? Are they willing to #PrioritizePeople & put #SafetyFirst? Is a system that expects unpaid advocates to hold paid officials accountable fair, just, equitable?

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

Public messages emphasizes personal responsibility, denying Community of systemic, public-health interventions that save lives & support livability. Wheater a motorist "stayed on scene" or was a "hit-and-run" driver, death is still final. Injuries have long-term impacts on crash victims & families.

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

Denver transportation officials are supposed to employ a #VisionZero Rapid Response process that "engages advocacy" after a fatal or serious-injury crash, but advocates have been denied meaningful engagement opportunities.

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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 · 14/08/2025

Something we hear a lot in my U.S. city is that bike lanes/changes to the cars-first status quo leads to gentrification/displacement/inaccessible spaces. That working class & disabled folx need cars/trucks to make a living/get places (ignoring the fact that many are nondrivers). How do you answer?

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Sasha Kestane @sashakestane.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

To be fair, you can't be expected to see outside of your giant truck/SUV.

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

Drivers can be distracted by many things. The distraction I most often see is drivers looking at their cell phone, or eating, or putting on makeup, or talking to the person sitting next to/behind them. Lots of things distract drivers. Distraction doesn't need to result in death/injury. #SafeSystem

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

Watch and tell me what's most likely to "impede the ADA ramp in that location" and "interfere with pedestrian traffic and the traffic light sight triangle."

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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 · 09/06/2025

It makes a lot of sense once you've taken the Undoing Racism(R) workshop from The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond. Highly recommend it. pisab.org/undoing-raci...

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Undoing Racism ® Community Organizing Workshop – PISAB

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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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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

I appreciate a leading pedestrian interval, sometimes, in specific contexts (better than nothing). However, LPIs can also create unnecessary conflicts between motorists and pedestrians when a right on red is allowed. It's time to get rid of ROR across the country.

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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 · 19/05/2025

Are you living IN Minneapolis? Is it as great as it seems? I hope your family is health & happy.

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

Are you in Denver? This sounds very familiar to what happens at our middle school. Last fall, a parent driver hit a student biking to school. Motornormativity is also very real among parents/caregivers, schools staff, city officials & police, influencing the lack of urgency+enforcement.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/05/06/where-does-motonormativity-come-from-and-which-country-has-it-worst

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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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