Hosted a fun family bike ride yesterday! Shared a flier on social media on Monday; a DOZEN local families showed up Saturday to ride two miles to the park. Aside from one family, none of us knew each other beforehand…community building and placemaking! A really sweet way to spend a Saturday morning!

Love regrocery! Super convenient for acquiring varying amounts of ingredients. I’m nearly walking distance to one but I try to bike over because I think they offer a % discount for people who arrive by bike. That’s been my experience anyway, not sure if it’s an ongoing thing.

A few years ago I saw a driver hit a guy on an e-scooter. For an hour the guy with a broken hip waited in ambulance, witnesses waited on sidewalk & driver in her car, only for cops to arrive and say ‘We don’t record/report this anymore since you guys defunded us. Only if it’s fatal or severe.’ 🤦🏻‍♀️

AQI does not account for all possible toxic chemicals so…definitely not safe out here.

The council decided to remove the bike lane.

This meeting was so hard to watch. One councilmember said ‘I’m a cyclist and I would never ride on that street, the pollution from vehicle emissions is so bad’. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Fire chief throws out some ideas for dealing w traffic, met w varying reactions from crowd 🙃

‘We need to get ppl out of their cars somehow…maybe mass transit?’

‘50 lane highway on every street so fire truck can easily get thru’

‘Remove parking on Brand so ppl can pull over & let the truck thru’

The angry driver comments contrast sharply w those of older woman who showed up to meeting to say she & husband are not typical bike demographic but they now ride e-bikes often, thanks to new lanes. Said friends & family even look down on them for this but it brings them so much joy to ride around 🥹