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Right now our city, like so many others, is environmentally at a climate crossroads. A now-annual fire season and the smoky air that accompanies it are an increasing threat to our community as our planet warms up. At the same time we have a respiratory illness pandemic whose seriousness i…

Dear Dirk, Thanks for expressing your opinion. I'm of the mind that all of our opinions matter, and we all benefit when someone shares theirs, so thank you for getting the conversation started.

I will share my own opinion below as well, partly in response to yours, and would be very…

The Cedar-Arroyo Intersection redesign addresses a pedestrian problem while creating a bike problem, especially for youth on wheels on their way to school. The proper channels for public engagement weren’t followed. What was promised wasn’t delivered, and the new plans were never shown to…

There seem to be some significantly misleading statements in this article.

Firstly, “Safe Streets” don’t actually exist. “Safe” means NO risk, when the goal of the slow streets movement is ‘LOWER stress/risk’, not ‘no stress/risk’ streets.

And ironically, the term “Safe Street…