We shouldn't have to feel like it is unsafe to walk, ride, or roll to where we are going and building a lifestyle where we aren't dependent on cars should begin while we're young.

Boulder: it's great for it's walkability and you can bike everywhere in the city, but very few people do. It's a scary place to exist as a pedestrian or person on a bike because we also invite everyone to drive their SUV everywhere...and most don't understand crosswalks

Cars have adverse impacts well beyond the street.

The most powerful transportation improvement intervention states and cities could have is for DOT employees to exclusively walk, bike and use transit for a year. They'd get it. The indifference, hostility and contempt for anyone outside of a car is comes through in so many ways.

If I had a dollar for every time I parked at an empty bike rack next to a parking lot full of SUVs... Boulder might be a city of cyclists, but it is sadly not a city of bike commuters, despite only being 8 miles across.

Is there a German expression for “fear that I will be dead before my region’s long term transit plans are realized?”

I don't understand how this isn't more of a national conversation. Many of us just want to live in walkable communities without spending 50% of our monthly income on housing.

I just want to get around town, swing by the gym, go to work, & drop my daughter off at daycare without having to contend with or worry about getting killed by people cruising through #Boulder in multi-ton mobile living rooms. Why is that so much to ask??

Take Toronto, for example. A big dense city, right? Wrong. The vast majority of Toronto - over 80% of the residentially zoned land area - has been losing population over the past 15 years. The strange predicament is that if you could return low density residential areas back to

READ: “3,337 Parisians were equipped with GPS trackers to record their journeys…for journeys from the outskirts of Paris to the center, the number of cyclists now far exceeds the number of motorists, a huge change from just 5 years ago.” Via Carlton Reid forbes.com/sites/carltonr…

"These roads are awful and this city should be liable for damage caused to my SUV by all these potholes!" [Person yelling from the window of their multi-ton SUV helping make all these potholes]

May our city officials quickly build the necessary infrastructure that relieves people who Mother of the role of taxi drivers. May they also spare us from losing our children to the #1 cause of preventable death among children & young adults: traffic deaths. #MothersDay

The time for civil disobedience has come. Though ~75% of Manhattan residents don’t drive, they must endure unrelenting costs, arrogance of space and noise from suburban motorists. They are compelled to breath particles from their tires, brakes and tailpipes and bury their kids.

Allowing the people who *want* to live like this *to* live like this should be the goal of every elected official who cares about climate, traffic, and quality of life.

We’ll help you with a simpler and more direct version of this. Driving is poisoning the air. If you choose to bike, walk, or take transit… you are helping everyone else out.