Urban designer and planner with a focus on mobility and public space. Opinions are my own.
Denver, CO
Joined September 2015
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I’ve long believed transit should be free- especially in a country where it’s difficult to get frequencies that make it useable on a daily basis for most folks.
RTD has free transit for the month of August and ITS WORKING Y’ALL. My buses are at least 2x as full these days.
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Exactly. Over their lifespans, EVs contribute almost as much to climate change as gas vehicles.
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If Biden would commit to nominating Janette Sadik-Khan for DOT Secretary, I would be out knocking on doors tomorrow.
Yes! Denver just did this last fall via ballot and the charter change allows us to play a stronger role in multimodal goals as a City.
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Thousands of white guys storm state capitols with guns and somehow they're "patriots." But two Black football players take a knee to peacefully protest disproportionate police brutality and they are a threat to all democracy.
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Housing friends! What are your favorite books about gentrification, land use, or cities that *aren't* written by white men?
My frustration comes from being told to make edits in comments vs people thinking through the edits themselves and incorporating them as suggestions.
Great point. I’m talking sharepoint here, but worth a STRONG SHAMING of anyone who makes direct edits. In any platform.
Like who do you think you are?!
One of my biggest professional pet peeves is when colleagues suggest document edits in comments vs making them in track changes. Like, don’t make me guess your thoughts to try and incorporate. Do the work yourself and toss out an idea we call all react to!
Trying to project grace and kindness towards myself even when I don’t feel like it. This is an unusual and unprecedented time, and I’m doing the best I can. Trying to recognize that whenever possible.
Hope you’re well, B! ❤️
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As part of earning a graduate degree, every architect, urban planner, and urban designer should be expected to spend at least a day or two shadowing someone with a significant mobility impairment.
This is ridiculous. Voters approved the plan and the funding for it. HB1279 directly opposes the will of the people. Shame on you, Indiana reps.
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Every candidate should be saying this xitter.gq/SawyerHackett/status/1…
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People complain about empty buses (usually only those who have never been on transit) but no one seems to complain about all those overbuilt empty parking lots that litter our landscape.
“Controversy is not evidence of failure. People who are negatively impacted are much more likely to speak up than those positively affected.” @humantransit
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“But if this wealth gap is the result of discriminatory design, could the systems that uphold it be redesigned to support black prosperity?” Great work by @prosperitynow fastcompany.com/90349324/can…
At a ‘Future of Public Space’ session: “We should think of streets as public space for everyone, not just automobiles. Across the country we have ceded responsibility for designing the streets to engineers vs designers. We need to think of them as public space again.” #npc19