The weather in Denver is so fickle! 20°C on weekend, -10°C the next. Makes for interesting wardrobe choices. Either way though, the Denver bike paths are fricking awesome!
Recent Posts
- The High Cost of Free Parking in Boulder
- Revisiting Junction Place, the TVAP and Multi-Way Boulevards
- The Making of Bicycle Things
- Automotive Death Revealer
- Riding with Live Cargo
- Boulder Bike Away From Work Day
- Moving Across Boulder by Bike
- The Bicycling Orchardist
- Bicycle Grocery Shopping Made Easy
- Have Spraypaint, Will Bicycle
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- Another potential co-op nixed by Boulder's archaic parking requirements: each 1400 sf 2 BR unit needs *4* spaces. Seriously? 1 week ago
- Mmmm @publicbikes are elegant and functional… all they lack is lights powered by hub dynamos! 2 weeks ago
- I think it's good when you schedule a 45min meeting w/ the mayor, & it goes 1.5hrs, ending only as you're kicked out of the (closing) cafe. 1 month ago
- My thoughts on the high cost of "free" parking in Boulder: http://t.co/aPoWeRqw @bouldergobldr @BoulderParking @CommunityCycles 1 month ago
- Wow. Affordable housing that uses federal funds is *prohibited* from charging for parking separately from rent (unbundling). 1 month ago
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- Between the Lines
Yet another article about the Shoupistas, this time in Los Angeles magazine. Have we reached some kind of cognitive tipping point? Will urban parking policy start changing? Will our downtown business districts be transformed? We can hope... - Taking Parking Lots Seriously, as Public Spaces
An article from the New York Times about the architecture of parking lots, and how they might be much better used as public spaces with some design tweaks. Some cities like Houston and LA, dedicate a full third of their land area to parking lots, creating hard paved urban deserts and storm runoff disasters. They say that simply suggesting that we "buy fewer cars" is glib (I disagree) but clearly point out the folly of requiring vast quantities of parking by law, and then giving it away for free, thus hiding the true costs. - More Roads = More Traffic
A new study from the University of Toronto clearly shows that additional free road capacity -- either from adding actual road, or shifting people from driving to transit -- has no effect on congestion. Traffic expands to fill the available capacity, no matter how much you add, and the net public benefit from the investment in additional road capacity is negative. - The Joy of Slow Cities
It's entirely possible that in The Future, we'll come to realize that slower cities are better than fast. A city in which the fastest thing on the street is a bicycle is a place for living, for being, for enjoying in its own right. Walking, chatting, stopping on a whim at any shop or park or patio. We were lulled into a view of the future that was all high speed and high energy by the explosive industrialization of the early 20th century. But our visions of the future can and do change. We get to define what progress means. - Parking Price Elasticity in San Francisco
Prices affect parking less than San Francisco expected, in its ongoing SFPark experiment, fully implementing dynamic parking prices with target occupancy rates. Apparently people are willing to pay quite a bit more to be right next to their destination, instead of even one block away. Either that, or they don't realize how much parking prices vary block by block. Perhaps each of the parking kiosks should have a prominent street-facing display, readable by drivers, advertizing the price they charge per hour?
- Between the Lines
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Good photos! I appreciate your use of Celsius – I'm hanging around engineers too much, I'm slowly being sucked into horrible units like Fahrenheit and kips and mgds. My water resources prof did win my allegiance, though, by suggesting that Obama should sign a proclamation outlawing english and engineering units.
The bike paths are awesome! I can't believe how little snow there is there!
Yeah, it's super dry here. It snows, but it never sticks around. Even if it doesn't warm up, the snow will sublimate away, but it usually warms up. Supposed to be 13°C Saturday.
Thankfully I don't even know what those units you're abbreviating are! I wish I could get my weather forecast in °K!
Yeah, it's super dry here. It snows, but it never sticks around. Even if it doesn't warm up, the snow will sublimate away, but it usually warms up. Supposed to be 13C Saturday.
Thankfully I don't even know what those units you're abbreviating are! I wish I could get my weather forecast in Kelvins!
I lived in Denver from age 3 to 6, and I guess I don't remember a lot of snow. Boulder had plenty the winter I was there.
How is the water situation in Denver and Boulder as it impacts future livability (re: climate change)?
We are at -6C, which is the warmest it will be all week
Let's see, that's…dang, I don't have 273 fingers! I never was good at adding either – I was meant to be a scientist and not an engineer (I do math better with letters than numbers).
How long was your ride – I see you gained some elevation – or was that a couple of different trips?
Oh yeah, that was three separate days of biking across about a week of time. It’s about 30km from Michelle’s folk’s place to downtown via the bike path (and 20km via the most direct route, but that’s not nearly as pleasant). I think that like most places in the west, there’s going to be plenty of water here for people to live (i.e. drink, bathe, wash) in most any climate scenario, but agriculture and landscaping will have to change.