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Denver Bicycle Lobby
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An all grassroots group advocating for safer streets and sustainable transportation options in the city of Denver, Colorado

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Congratulations to our new #denver Bike Mayor Alejandra!

Thank you to Ben for your service this past year. Pictured with other Bike Mayors past.
A picture of six people standing grouped, all former and one current Denver bike mayor, as appointed by the Denver bicycle lobby. The newly appointed mayor holds the ceremonial cup of office, a chalice-shaped object created from a bike chain.
December 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Thank you to everyone that came out to our DBL meetup tonight! Shout out to our special guest @activetowns.bsky.social for stopping by while he is town.
A large group of people sit and stand among outdoor tables. They are in front of a 120 year old red brick school that has been converted into a mixed use venue.
October 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Upcoming this Tuesday! #bikeden
From BikeDenver community on Reddit ACTIVE TOWNS Denver Bicycle Lobby September Social Meetup with Special Guest John Simmerman from Active Towns. Join us on Tuesday, Sep 30th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the Patio at the Schoolyard Beer Garden located at 1115 Acoma St.
September 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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NIMBYs already got the protected bike lanes through Capitol Hill cancelled and now they're coming for the sharrows. Meeting tomorrow to fight back. #bikeden
Emerson St Bikeway Community Meeting This Thursday. We are getting word that NIMBYs are trying to organize against a Capitol Hill neighborhood bikeway on Emerson Street (between 2nd and 11th Ave). Please come to the Shift Workspaces on Corona Street this Thursday, September 25 at 7 PM to support the bikeway.
September 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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We send our thoughts to the family and friends of the person killed biking this weekend.

Unfortunately, this crash was predictable. Neighbors have been asking for street safety infrastructure upgrades to W 14th Ave for years.
Bicyclist dies after weekend hit-and-run by: Jacob Factor Posted: Sep 1, 2025 / 06:35 AM MDT DENVER (KDVR) - A bicyclist died after a weekend hit-and-run crash near Sloans Lake, Denver police said. The crash happened near 14th Avenue and Yates Street and involved one vehicle and the bicyclist, Denver police reported early Saturday morning.
September 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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We are thinking of Denver City employees right now. Thank you all for the work you do.
Black text on a white background: We don't know what will happen with planned City layoffs next week. But we wanted to say thank you to all the public servants at the City and County of Denver that have spent time making our City a better place. Especially those in the sustainable transportation space. We see you. We appreciate you. We stand with you.
August 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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We want to congratulate @yimbydenver.bsky.social on a successful campaign to eliminate parking minimums in Denver.

Housing Policy is Transportation Policy.
A picture of the voting board in the Denver city Council chambers. The board shows nine eyes and three knees, four votes are Alvidrez Gonzales-Gutierrez, Hinds Lewis, Parady, Romero Campbell, Torres, Watson, and Sandoval. No votes are Flynn, Gilmore, and Sawyer.
August 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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If Mayor Mike Johnston wants to get the community of people that care about sustainable transportation and safer streets on board with this bond, he should add protected bike lane projects to this bond, not words pretending like he is.
The Mayor thinks that changing language will convince voters he cares about people that bike. When he has 0 miles of new protected bike lanes in this bond, we call BS. Tearing down a bridge that already had a bike path on it and putting a bike path on the new bridge is not a bike project. Adding new protected bike lanes to the bond list is more meaningful than adding words. between Colorado Boulevard and Quebec Street. 2) Amended the language of the Transportation and Mobility ballot question to better reflect an emphasis on cyclist and pedestrian safety in the multimodal transportation projects.
July 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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With permission from Salih's family, DBL is organizing a ghost bike dedication at the site of the crash (W 38th Ave & Tejon St) on Saturday, 8/2, at 11 AM. Please join us, especially if you are a community member in District 1, and share with your neighbors […]

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A blue flyer showing text along with an outline of a white bicycle surrounded by white butterflies Text reads: SATURDAY, 8/2 - 11 AM SALIH KOC GHOST BIKE DEDICATION & VIGIL W 38TH AVENUE & TEJON STREET DENVER, CO MORE INFO: INFO@DBL.BIKE EVERYONE IS WELCOME DBL.BIKE
July 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Some great comments on the petition to save Denver bike funding and letter to the Mayor and City Council. You've got till Monday to fill it out.

https://us3.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=174940b87323f9fc9e5f73693&id=0e9aca5304
Joe 3 days ago Why does navigating a city that purports itself to be so outdoor-friendly have to mean bouncing between a woefully incomplete bike network and surface streets? Cars are given every opportunity to get around the city with an over- abundant street network, which all come with their own large maintenance and repair costs. It's time to build out a truly complete, safe bike network and start saving infrastructure dollars by closing redundant roads and bridges. Let's fix traffic by providing a better alternative to just paving more.
July 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Shout out to the bicycle community member letting the Mayor know that we need more bike lane funding in the Bond while he was walking to an event downtown today. We see you. Keep up the good work #bikeden!

The bicycle lobby is all powerful.
The "all-powerful bike lobby" emblem. A spoke ring. Within that, bike chain links in the form of laurels bookending a pyramid with an all-seeing eye. Below, the words "birota omnipotens" in a banner.
July 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Another crash. Pickup truck driver drove into the bike lane & hit a person on a scooter and dragged them. This road was supposed to be upgraded to a protected bike lane, but once again DOTI leadership & the Mayor have not prioritized the work to make it safer. 1st Ave & Knox Ct. #bikeden
A photograph of the intersection at first and Knox the police SUV is parked across the intersection to block traffic. A pick up truck is parked in the driveway of a gas station on the right and a scooter lies on the ground next to its rear bumper.
July 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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A driver killed a woman on a bike tonight on W 38th Avenue. This is the second fatal hit and run bike crash on W 38th Avenue in the last few years.

This is also at an intersection along a street scheduled to become a protected bike lane until the local city councilor intervened, so there's that.
A blurry picture of the intersection of 38th and Tejon. A cop car is stopped in the intersection. You can see police, crime tape, people standing around the intersection, and a tent to cover the body of the bicyclist who was killed thanks to traffic engineering and fealty to free parking.
July 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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YOU'RE INVITED: Join us on Tuesday July 29th in memory of Alexis Bounds, a mother of two who was killed while riding her bike 6 years ago. meet at the north end of South Marion Parkway at 7 pm to honor Alexis and then ride around the Marion Parkway lane. This […]

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A flyer for the Alexis Palms candlelight ride, which is occurring on July 29 at 7 PM. Shows the ride information on a background consisting of a photograph of a previous memorial ride for Alexis. The shot is low to the ground facing towards many bike riders and positioned on the concrete dividers between the bike lane and general traffic lane on Marion Parkway where Alexis was killed
July 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Mayor Johnston on the campaign: I won’t delay building out bike lanes.
Mayor Johnston last week: I am delaying building out bike lanes.
Mayor Johnston's answer to a questionnaire on bikes: But Denver has frequently strayed from executing the Denver Moves plan as written, delaying and even canceling planned projects. As Mayor, I will commit to executing Denver Moves- and expanding upon it to build more high-comfort, dedicated bike lanes-to ensure that our city follows through on the ambitious promises it's made. Mayor Johnston's anger during an interview last week about bike infrastructure: And there are a lot of us in the city who still have to use cars, and we don't want to make it harder for you to use a car. We want to make it easier for you to use a bike, and we think there's a way to do both by both protecting parking spots, getting a smaller number of various safe lanes, and then making sure that we can still get people that want access to businesses that have spaces in front." Johnston added that the city has paused expansions for a lot of new bike lanes, but would like to accelerate a smaller number of lanes for higher safety protections.
July 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Call your city council members and the two at large council members today. The mayor has proposed reducing dedicated bike lane funding in the bond package to $0. It’s time we fight back for sustainable and safe transportation.
Legislative Alert- Call or email your Council- members today Mayor Johnston has completely ignored the bond community input process & has reduced dedicated bike lane funding in the bond package to $0. This is down from $18 million in the last bond. Call or email your council member & the two at large council members and ask them to put dedicated bike lane funding in the bond package. Not funding bike lane projects in this bond will set our progress on climate friendly transportation back for at least a decade.
July 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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July 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Your occasional reminder that the Mayor and DOTI leadership got rid of a protected bike lane here to enhance the valet parking experience for steakhouse patrons while making this bike lane more dangerous for anyone that rides it on a bike or scooter.
A picture of 1550 Market St, from the vantage point of the sidewalk facing northeast. On the right side, you can see a dining tent, taking up almost the entire sidewalk, leaving only the smallest legally required space in between the dining tent and the street curb. A sign sticks up out of the sidewalk between the tent and the curb, further reducing the width, announcing the end of the bike lane. The street itself, a downtown arterial, has been recently reconfigured with sharrows instead of the protected concrete bike lane which was previously there. tl;dr the mayor’s shame
July 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Our thoughts go out to the person on a bike that was hit by a driver today.
Denver Police Dept. @DenverPolice TRAFFIC: #DPD is investigating a crash involving a bicyclist and a motorist at 17th and King. One person sustained serious injuries. The driver remained on scene. Expect delays in the area. CRASH ALERT • CRASH ALERT
July 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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What it’s like to go to a community meeting when NIMBYs start yelling. #bikeden #denver
A single panel comic depicting a Jeopardy-style trivia game called Facts Don't Matter. The host is speaking to the contestants "I'm sorry Jeanne your answer was correct but Kevin shouted his incorrect answer over yours so he gets the points."
June 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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DBL meetup today
• Next DBL Meeting Saturday, June 28, 2025 11:00AM Come join us for our June social meetup at Table Public House. Bring the little ones and let's enjoy a lovely spot along the South Platte River. If you are interested in riding over, meet by the South Platte River trail next to REl at 10:15, wheels down at 10:30.
June 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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This is what happens to your stock price when you mess with the Market Street Protected Bike Lane. Don’t want your stock to go down 7%? Don’t mess with the bike lane STK. The Bike Lobby is all powerful.
A daily price chart for One Group Hospitality, owners of the STK steakhouse brand, showing a 7% drop in price for June 27, 2025. A satisfying slide down and to the right for a mediocre restaurant that that whined until part of a protected bike lane in downtown Denver was removed and turned over for valet parking.
June 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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We’ve heard Mayor Johnston is proposing to reduce bicycle funding in our upcoming GO Bond by 95%!!! That means hardly any new bike lanes in #denver for the next decade.
Mayor Johnston is reducing funding for bike lanes in the upcoming Vibrant Denver bond by 95%! In the 2017 Elevate Bond, Mayor Hancock funded $18,000,000 of citywide bike lanes. We've heard Johnston's bond has only ~$875,000. Johnston is not serious about reducing air pollution and fighting climate change.
June 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Thank you Mayor Johnston and DOTI for “upgrading” our bike lanes. They work so well to keep trucks from parking in them now that you’ve removed the flex posts. And pedestrian can see so well into the shops now without the flex posts being there.
A picture of a bicycle lane in downtown Denver, where the 3 foot tall posts have recently been removed and replaced with low blocks instead. A delivery truck is parked in the bike lane with its ramp sticking out into the lane. There's not enough room for a bicyclist to go around the truck.
June 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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@ibikecommute.bsky.social catching the Denver Police in a very @tomflood.bsky.social image today in downtown Denver.

Bikes lanes aren't parking lanes.
From behind, a view of a girl riding a bike in downtown Denver. She's riding in the buffer area of one of downtown's bike lanes because Denver police have parked a giant, white SUV in the bike lane. If front of her, another driver has taken their queue from the cops and parked in the bike lane as well, flashers blinking.
June 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM