Matthew Elliott
@matthewdelliott.bsky.social
UX Humanitarian & Co-Founder @ Super Humane. I mix cocktails, cheer the Texas Rangers, fiddle with technology, and ride bikes. Bike Streets. He/him.
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Thank you to all who continue to participate in the greatest policy debate in modern history. I’m going to respond to this thread with some frequently asked questions so we can focus our efforts on more productive conversation.
strangers are fighting to the death in my menchies over this pretty innocuous take and slinging devastating counterarguments like “what if I had to run away from a murderer” and “I like speeding”
one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech
December 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Thank you to all who continue to participate in the greatest policy debate in modern history. I’m going to respond to this thread with some frequently asked questions so we can focus our efforts on more productive conversation.
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Along 14th Street in Denver
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Along 14th Street in Denver
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Mandatory car ownership is a tax by a different name
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Mandatory car ownership is a tax by a different name
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We often talk about the "freedom to drive", but we ignore the freedom not to.
Making car ownership the baseline for participating in society isn't liberty, it’s forcing a mandatory, expensive subscription service on people just so they can get to work, buy food, or take their kids to school.
Making car ownership the baseline for participating in society isn't liberty, it’s forcing a mandatory, expensive subscription service on people just so they can get to work, buy food, or take their kids to school.
December 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We often talk about the "freedom to drive", but we ignore the freedom not to.
Making car ownership the baseline for participating in society isn't liberty, it’s forcing a mandatory, expensive subscription service on people just so they can get to work, buy food, or take their kids to school.
Making car ownership the baseline for participating in society isn't liberty, it’s forcing a mandatory, expensive subscription service on people just so they can get to work, buy food, or take their kids to school.
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We can protect people on bikes, we just have to want to.
December 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We can protect people on bikes, we just have to want to.
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I’m running for the U.S. Senate so the people who built Colorado can take back control of our healthcare, our homes, and our futures.
Working people built Colorado, we deserve a government that finally works for us.
Join our campaign: julieforcolorado.com
Working people built Colorado, we deserve a government that finally works for us.
Join our campaign: julieforcolorado.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I’m running for the U.S. Senate so the people who built Colorado can take back control of our healthcare, our homes, and our futures.
Working people built Colorado, we deserve a government that finally works for us.
Join our campaign: julieforcolorado.com
Working people built Colorado, we deserve a government that finally works for us.
Join our campaign: julieforcolorado.com
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Denver scaled back a street safety project after pushback from the family of Colorado's wealthiest man.
While the city told the public that construction was the hold up, @spencersoicher.bsky.social obtained internal city emails showing the issue was "high level" community concerns.
While the city told the public that construction was the hold up, @spencersoicher.bsky.social obtained internal city emails showing the issue was "high level" community concerns.
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Denver scaled back a street safety project after pushback from the family of Colorado's wealthiest man.
While the city told the public that construction was the hold up, @spencersoicher.bsky.social obtained internal city emails showing the issue was "high level" community concerns.
While the city told the public that construction was the hold up, @spencersoicher.bsky.social obtained internal city emails showing the issue was "high level" community concerns.
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Drive as if someone will jump out on the street at anytime and then be surprised if that doesn't happen. Not the other way around.
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Drive as if someone will jump out on the street at anytime and then be surprised if that doesn't happen. Not the other way around.
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The mayor is continuing his legacy of undermining trust when a 5 year community input process is reversed right after a billionaire family complains.
A scuttled road diet for Alameda Avenue has caused discontent within the advisory board for the city’s transportation department — including one resignation, with more possible.
At least one citizen advisory board member has quit over DOTI walking back its Alameda plans
Several advisory board members say they're increasingly concerned about the transportation department’s commitment to safety.
denverite.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The mayor is continuing his legacy of undermining trust when a 5 year community input process is reversed right after a billionaire family complains.
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“As we continue to have conversations about what we do to support the bike bus movement,” PBOT Director Williams said the BAC meeting last week, “some of that will require some changes. There is a deep interest in making sure that we do that well and do that right.”
bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...
bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...
PBOT gives bike bus leaders traffic signal superpowers
You could think of this as bike bus signal priority.
bikeportland.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“As we continue to have conversations about what we do to support the bike bus movement,” PBOT Director Williams said the BAC meeting last week, “some of that will require some changes. There is a deep interest in making sure that we do that well and do that right.”
bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...
bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...
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Every time a kid gets to eat lunch, we all win. Even if you have food.
Every time a wildfire gets put out, we all win. Even if you don't smell smoke.
Every time someone gets an education, we all win. Even if your kids go to private school.
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Every time a wildfire gets put out, we all win. Even if you don't smell smoke.
Every time someone gets an education, we all win. Even if your kids go to private school.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Every time a kid gets to eat lunch, we all win. Even if you have food.
Every time a wildfire gets put out, we all win. Even if you don't smell smoke.
Every time someone gets an education, we all win. Even if your kids go to private school.
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Every time a wildfire gets put out, we all win. Even if you don't smell smoke.
Every time someone gets an education, we all win. Even if your kids go to private school.
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"People drive the design, not the sign."
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People will drive as the road appears. Build a highway and they will drive like it’s a highway. Narrow it to an adorable alleyway or country lane by building protected bike lanes, widening sidewalks, planting trees, or just freakin’ bollards, and they will drive accordingly.
I agree with the need for comprehensive street redesign / traffic calming in San Francisco, but I do not think it's "entrapment" to cite people for exceeding the speed limit. Drivers are personally responsible for obeying the law even if it is physically possible for them to disobey it.
October 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"People drive the design, not the sign."
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Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.
September 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.
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When life gives you lemons.... Make a pop-up separated bike lane!
September 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
When life gives you lemons.... Make a pop-up separated bike lane!
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Our neighbor school has started doing more of their own traffic calming. It’s great to see this tactical urbanism being employed, but frustrating that A. it’s needed at all and B. not being implemented by the city. It really does take a village.
September 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Our neighbor school has started doing more of their own traffic calming. It’s great to see this tactical urbanism being employed, but frustrating that A. it’s needed at all and B. not being implemented by the city. It really does take a village.
Maybe I should start preemptively screaming at car drivers when they approach a red light—that seems to work better than the light itself.
9/9/25: Blue Ford SUV driver on their phone blew through a red light on 38th at Clay while a cyclist was in the intersection. Luckily cyclist saw the speeder coming from a block away and slowed to avoid the collision. Driver finally stopped half a block later after the cyclist screamed "red light!"
September 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Maybe I should start preemptively screaming at car drivers when they approach a red light—that seems to work better than the light itself.
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Friendly reminder.
Road safety campaigns must speak directly to and target those that perpetrate the greatest harm.
Road safety campaigns must speak directly to and target those that perpetrate the greatest harm.
September 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Friendly reminder.
Road safety campaigns must speak directly to and target those that perpetrate the greatest harm.
Road safety campaigns must speak directly to and target those that perpetrate the greatest harm.
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Both 46th Ave and Lowell at this intersection were supposed to be protected bike lanes. The 46th Ave PBL was cancelled and the Lowell PBL has been delayed indefinitely due to lack of funding. This is another crash in Denver that could have been prevented.
September 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Both 46th Ave and Lowell at this intersection were supposed to be protected bike lanes. The 46th Ave PBL was cancelled and the Lowell PBL has been delayed indefinitely due to lack of funding. This is another crash in Denver that could have been prevented.
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In a world full of so much misery, you can ALWAYS rely on bollards to make things better.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
August 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
In a world full of so much misery, you can ALWAYS rely on bollards to make things better.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
First time I’ve encountered one of these stupid vehicles on the street. They are so comically wide and obscenely fast. There is no way these should be legal on city streets.
8/23/25: White Hummer EV driver failed to stop at the stop sign on Wolff at 41st, driving into the intersection before stopping just feet from where an entire family of cyclists were passing through.
August 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
First time I’ve encountered one of these stupid vehicles on the street. They are so comically wide and obscenely fast. There is no way these should be legal on city streets.
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Table For One Please.
August 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Table For One Please.
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View of cargo bikes parked on the side of the elementary school playground for first day of school drop off. You love to see it.
August 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
View of cargo bikes parked on the side of the elementary school playground for first day of school drop off. You love to see it.
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Home to work.
Home to school.
Home to the store.
That’s real life.
0–60 times don’t matter in any of it, except to the auto industry that profits off selling speed and death.
Home to school.
Home to the store.
That’s real life.
0–60 times don’t matter in any of it, except to the auto industry that profits off selling speed and death.
August 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Home to work.
Home to school.
Home to the store.
That’s real life.
0–60 times don’t matter in any of it, except to the auto industry that profits off selling speed and death.
Home to school.
Home to the store.
That’s real life.
0–60 times don’t matter in any of it, except to the auto industry that profits off selling speed and death.
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I was going to suggest that it would be better with markers for different speeds, but it actually has the markers already!
August 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I was going to suggest that it would be better with markers for different speeds, but it actually has the markers already!